To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CDROM support in ata_piix?
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:54:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: <41702358.1080203@pobox.com> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 15
 Oct 2004 15:22:00 -0400")
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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
-- 
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
   --T. J. Jackson, 1863
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