On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: >On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >For starters, enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR. >> >> That could stand to be moved or renamed, it is well buried in the menu for >> the REAL scsi stuffs, which I don't have any of. Enabled & building now. > >The "SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)" section of that menu actually >applies to all ATA-command-set devices that don't use the old IDE code. >For example, usb-storage uses "SCSI disk" out of that section, and >I've only seen "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" be needed for a >particular USB card reader with two slots. At this point, most of the >things in the kernel that refer to SCSI probably should say "storage" (or >"ATA", really, but that would make the acronyms confusing). > >Incidentally, you should be able to save debugging time for problems like >missing "sr" by building it as a module, which will build really quickly >and not require a reboot to test. > > -Daniel >*This .sig left intentionally blank* I did, Daniel, but while that has worked, its not been 100% foolproof in the past, so I just waste the 9 minutes building a new kernel as cheap insurance. -- 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) Mal: "If it's Alliance trouble you got, you might want to consider another ship. Some onboard here fought for the Independents." --Episode #8, "Out of Gas" - 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
