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. :) Thanks Jeff. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all. -- Thomas J. Kopp - 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
