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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
