Francesco Biscani wrote:
>
> Feb 20 22:06:17 kurtz ata2(0): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.
..
> The CDROM on the second ide channel was not recognized (what's up with that 
> WARNING?).

Dunno.  For some odd reason libata still doesn't want to handle ATAPI
devices out-of-the-box.  There's a boot/module option for it, though,
as well as this patch (attached).