bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >... > Disable CONFIG_IDE. Or disable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE. Or maybe disable > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD (but I don't know if the PIIX libata driver will > pick up just the CD drive). Or disable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX. This is in > approximate order of most-general to most-specific options; turning off > the last option will disable the least amount of code. > > (I have CONFIG_IDE disabled entirely, but whether you can do that will > depend on your current IDE chipset(s) and their level of libata support..) > > There may be ways to do this with kernel options as well, but I don't > know of any offhand. Check Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for the > full list of flags; something appropriate may be in there. (At least > that would let you avoid recompiling.) I was afraid it might take something like that - recompile without IDE or IDECD. I'll have to think about if I'm brave enough to try that. Also considering the libata PATA drivers are considered "experimental". I did look at kernel-parameters.txt before posting to see if there was something for libata like the old 2.4 option for having ide-scsi handle the CD instead of the regular IDE driver. I didn't find anything there. I did find this in ide.txt: "ide_core.noprobe=1.0". It causes the IDE driver to ignore my CD drive (master device, secondary channel). But libata doesn't pick it up automatically. If there is a way to get it to do so, I haven't found it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
