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. :) -- 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) Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. - 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
