Re: CD/DVD-ROM: ide vs. libata

From: Cal Peake
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 12:37:17 EST


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Grega Fajdiga wrote:

> Hello, LKML,
>
> I'm wondering if the old ide-cd from the ide subsystem is still
> necessary to get a CD/DVD-ROM working or is there a libata driver
> available already,

Check the ATA menu in the kernel config to see if your controller has a
driver. If so, enable it, enable SCSI cdrom support, and disable the old
IDE stuff. If all goes well you should get /dev/sr0 which will be your new
cdrom device.

Cheers,
--
Cal Peake

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