[ltp] atapi cdrom support gone with 2.6.16 on T43

Hannes Kuhnert linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:35:48 +0200


Marcus Obst schrieb:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:31:43AM +0100, Hannes Kuhnert wrote:
> > Have you reserved the drive for the SCSI driver with a kernel option like
> > hdc=scsi? Is ide-scsi loaded?
>
> I have IDE only as modules, so I should not need to reserve it at boot
> time, since there is only the SATA/PATA driver.

> > Why don't you just use the IDE driver (ide-cd)?
>
> As far as I can remember there is no DMA support when using ide-cd.
> (The T43 has an SATA-to-PATA bridge).

In the meantime I found out that the SATA driver is part of the SCSI-System, 
that means that it has nothing to do with ide-scsi and that ide-cd ist 
useless, of course.
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Hannes Kuhnert, Chemnitz, Germany