Re: CDROM support in ata_piix?

Doug McNaught
2004-10-15T20:56:00Z

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

> Doug McNaught wrote:
>> Is there any way to get ata_piix to register my CDROM, or
>> alternatively to have the regular IDE driver handle it? This seems
>> to be a known problem (it's filed as a Debian bug)--is it
>> fixed in 2.6.9-rc4? I had a look at the -rc4 patch but couldn't tell
>> from the diff whether there's anything CDROM-related in there...
>
> Well, two things are going on:
>
> You may need to set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SATA (or unset it) depending on
> your configuration.

I will look into this.

> Once you get past that, you need to apply the latest libata patch to
> fix a related combined mode bug.
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/14/336

I will probably wait until this trickles into a Linus kernel--I don't
have an immediate need for the CDROM (and I can boot 2.4 if I have
to).

Thanks very much for the response!

-Doug
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