Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:53:18 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know why my dvdwriter isn't being assigned a '/dev/sdx'
>>>> number when dmesg says its found ok at ata2.00?  I've turned on an
>>>> option that says something about using the bios for device access this
>>>> build, but I'll be surprised if that's it. :)
>>>
>>> I think you mean /dev/scdx not /dev/sdx.  Make sure you have the 'sr'
>>> driver compiled and load (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR).
>>
>> That menu item COULD be moved, I don't have any REAL scsi stuff, so I
>> didn't look there.  My bad, with help from hiding it like that. :-)
>>
>>> The bios-for-dev-access thing definitely won't help, and may hurt (by
>>> taking over the device you wanted to test).
>>
>> Ok, if BLK_DEV_SR fails, I'll take that back out.  I'm heating the room
>> making kernels here. :)
>
>I can say with 100% certainty that 'sr' is required in order to use your
>dvd writer with libata.  :)
>
>	Jeff

And as usual, you are 100% correct, thanks.

And now back to our regularly scheduled testing for 'exception Emask' 
errors. :)

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