[ltp] libata PATA drivers on ThinkPad T42

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag 15 M=E4rz 2007 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > I had to use "CONFIG_ATA_PIIX" and not "CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX" as
>
> Correct. MPIIX is for something else. PIIX does PATA and SATA. You
> might also need PIIX+AHCI on *60 and newer thinkpads (not the T42).

Hello Henrique!

Thanks for the hint.

I now switched my good old ThinkPad T23, too ;-):

martin@deepdance:~> cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.20.3-ck1-tp23-sws2-2.2.9.9 (martin@deepdance)=20
(gcc-Version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 PREEMPT=20
Sat Mar 17 17:24:45 CET 2007

It also works with CONFIG_ATA_PIIX (has ICH3).

> > To get CDROM support out of the box add "atapi_enabled=3D1" to the
> > kernel boot options. Otherwise do "modprobe sr_mod" later. You need
>
> This will depend on kernel version, I think atapi_enabled is either
> already the default for 2.6.21, or will be the default for 2.6.22.

Thanks for the hint.

> > Thats about it. Only think I found is that there is no /dev/cdrom
> > link created anymore, but that might be the case with a "SCSI" cd
> > drive. K3B and KDE itself happily use /dev/scd0.
>
> This is a distro bug.

Okay, I think I will file a report about that.

Regards,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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