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 12:32:04 -0500 Message-ID: <479F6314.6090906@garzik.org> References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801291004.12565.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <479F5B39.1000708@garzik.org> <200801291212.03910.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]:44659 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751794AbYA2RcH (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:32:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200801291212.03910.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: > 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. :) I can say with 100% certainty that 'sr' is required in order to use your dvd writer with libata. :) Jeff