From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:12:03 -0500 Message-ID: <200801291212.03910.gene.heskett@gmail.com> References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801291004.12565.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <479F5B39.1000708@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from vms173003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.3]:52288 "EHLO vms173003pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752296AbYA2RQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:16:05 -0500 In-reply-to: <479F5B39.1000708@garzik.org> Content-disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Florian Attenberger , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux IDE mailing list On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Does anyone know why my dvdwriter isn't being assigned a '/dev/sdx' number >> when dmesg says its found ok at ata2.00? I've turned on an option that >> says something about using the bios for device access this build, but I'll >> be surprised if that's it. :) > >I think you mean /dev/scdx not /dev/sdx. Make sure you have the 'sr' >driver compiled and load (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR). > That menu item COULD be moved, I don't have any REAL scsi stuff, so I didn't look there. My bad, with help from hiding it like that. :-) >The bios-for-dev-access thing definitely won't help, and may hurt (by >taking over the device you wanted to test). > Ok, if BLK_DEV_SR fails, I'll take that back out. I'm heating the room making kernels here. :) Thanks Jeff. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all. -- Thomas J. Kopp