Re: cdrom recognition on kernel 2.6.8.1

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, Sep 15 2004, Lars Täuber wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> 
> I'm not subscribed to this list! But I read the archive from time to time.
> 
> In my linux box is a teac IDE CD-Rom drive. This is only recognised
> when no audio cd is in the drive while booting.  Is this a drive
> failure, or a kernel failure?
> 
> I didn't find any other on the net with the same problem. So hopefully
> someone of you can explain?
> 
> ............
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> NFORCE3-150: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:08.0
> NFORCE3-150: chipset revision 165
> NFORCE3-150: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> NFORCE3-150: 0000:00:08.0 (rev a5) UDMA133 controller
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> libata version 1.02 loaded.
> sata_sil version 0.54
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> ............

Did 2.6.7 work? The ide-probe isn't finding your drive, that's very odd.
I think this is an issue with your hardware, not Linux. Perhaps you can
use the drive if you add hdc=cdrom to your boot line.

-- 
Jens Axboe