Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >For starters, enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR.
>>
>> That could stand to be moved or renamed, it is well buried in the menu for
>> the REAL scsi stuffs, which I don't have any of.  Enabled & building now.
>
>The "SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)" section of that menu actually
>applies to all ATA-command-set devices that don't use the old IDE code.
>For example, usb-storage uses "SCSI disk" out of that section, and
>I've only seen "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" be needed for a
>particular USB card reader with two slots. At this point, most of the
>things in the kernel that refer to SCSI probably should say "storage" (or
>"ATA", really, but that would make the acronyms confusing).
>
>Incidentally, you should be able to save debugging time for problems like
>missing "sr" by building it as a module, which will build really quickly
>and not require a reboot to test.
>
>	-Daniel
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I did, Daniel, but while that has worked, its not been 100% foolproof in the 
past, so I just waste the 9 minutes building a new kernel as cheap insurance.

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