Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 11:49:36 EST


Gene Heskett writes:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> As slight change here, I was going to use the same .config as 2.6.24-rc8,
> >> but just discovered that neither rc8 nor final is finding the drivers for
> >> my
> >
> >If it is not finding a driver that is nothing to do with libata. It means
> >it's not being loaded by the distribution, or the distribution kernel is
> >too old (2.6.22) for the hardware - in which case see the Fedora respins
> >which are on 2.6.23.something right now.
> >
> >Alan
>
> Home built kernel Alan. But you are as good as anyone to tell me what I
> need to turn on in order for this dvdwriter to be enabled:
> [ 28.862478] ata2.00: ATAPI: LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165H6S, HS06, max UDMA/66
> ....
> [ 28.908647] ata2.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
> [ 29.081253] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
> ....
> it has had several 80 wire cables tried, hasn't fixed this, and does not
> seem to effect its operation when it does work.
> ....
> [ 29.132405] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165H6S HS06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> ....
> [ 43.450795] scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
> -------
> No further mention of it in dmesg, and k3b cannot find the drive at any
> /dev/sgX address.
>
> .config attached, what else do I need to turn on?

...

> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set

For starters, enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR.
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