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Docking Station CD-ROM

Inco (39.45), a laptop, has a CD-ROM located in the Docking Station. You will need a recent version of the kernel (at least post 2.2.15) so that it will be recognised on boot, displaying the following message:

  CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 01 dev 28
  CMD646: chipset revision 0x03, MultiWord DMA Force Limited
  CMD646: 100% native mode on irq 10
   ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
   ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
  ... 
  hde: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1802B, ATAPI CDROM drive
  ... 
  ide2 at 0xfcf8-0xfcff,0xfcf2 on irq 10
  .. 
  hde: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
  Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56