From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" To: "Robert E Brose II" , Subject: Re: Missing iBook HD driver? Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:52:19 +0200 Message-Id: <20020921115219.9126@192.168.4.1> In-Reply-To: <20020920201320.14193.qmail@kunk.jriver.com> References: <20020920201320.14193.qmail@kunk.jriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >After corresponding with Ben H. on this and doing some testing >I reached the conclusion that: > >If you have a dvd/cd-rw combo drive on a 600 mhz ibook the >stock 2.4 kernels will not recognise it. Ben has fixed this in >his kernel and I found an old reference in the faq-o-matic >(to an iMac) that you can work around it by specifying > >hda=16383,16,63 > >as a kernel arg when booting from the install cd. I thought >I'd drop the info here so others can search it out when they >run into the same problem... I don't recommend the kernel arg thing. There is indeed a workaround that seem to work properly in my current tree, I'll try to get that merged upstream. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/