From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:58:33 -0500 Message-ID: <479F5B39.1000708@garzik.org> References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801281413.21347.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20080129074127.5699afcf.valdyn@gmail.com> <200801291004.12565.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:55158 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752452AbYA2Q6f (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:58:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200801291004.12565.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Gene Heskett Cc: Florian Attenberger , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux IDE mailing list 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). The bios-for-dev-access thing definitely won't help, and may hurt (by taking over the device you wanted to test). Jeff