On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:05:15 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to boot from an XUbuntu 9.10 CD on an old Sony VAIO Z600. > The special thing about this laptop is that the CD-ROM drive is actually a > drive connected to a PCMCIA card. Nothing special about that. > With the old ide subsystem, you had to pass `ide2=0x180,0x386' on the > kernel command line to make install CDs find the CD-ROM drive. Recent > distros use the new ata subsystem, hence this doesn't work anymore. > > Does there exist an equivalent for the new ata subsystem? With both the recent old and the current libata your pcmcia or cardbus subsystem as appropriate should discover the device. ide=a,b,c won't actually work because the kernel pcmica subsystem will re-init the port from the BIOS whacky setup to normal PCMCIA/Cardbus. Not tried this on the Z600 but it is true for several others. If it doesn't work on the Z600 get more some dmi strings, lspci dumps and verify what the pcmcia layer does and we can make it automatic as it should be. Alan -- 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
