--- ./linux-2.6.18/drivers/ata/Kconfig 2006-10-09 22:09:35.000000000 -0400
+++ ../linux-2.6.18/drivers/ata/Kconfig 2006-10-09 22:04:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,9 +15,38 @@
the name of your ATA host adapter (the card inside your computer
that "speaks" the ATA protocol, also called ATA controller),
because you will be asked for it.
+ NOTE:
+ You will also need to select the ata device interface drivers below,
+ to actually use the drives that libata detects.
if ATA
+config ATA_DISK
+ tristate "ATA Disk Support"
+ select BLK_DEV_SD
+ depends on SCSI
+ ---help---
+ Select this if you have ata disk drives. Devices will be
+ connected to traditional scsi device nodes. eg. sda
+
+
+config ATA_OPTICAL
+ tristate "ATA CD/DVD Rom Support"
+ select BLK_DEV_SR
+ depends on SCSI
+ ---help---
+ Select this if you have ata CD/DVD optical drives. Devices
+ will be connected to traditional scsi device nodes. eg. sr0
+
+config ATA_GENERIC
+ tristate "ATA Generic support (CD/DVD Writer)"
+ select BLK_DEV_SG
+ depends on SCSI
+ ---help---
+ Select this if you have ata optical writers or anything
+ supported by libata that's not a disk drive. Devices will be
+ connected to the traditional scsi device nodes. eg. sg0
+
config SATA_AHCI
tristate "AHCI SATA support"
depends on PCI