Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:33:10 -0700 | From | "Stephen John Smoogen" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16.16 Lost CD-ROM Drive |
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On 2/1/07, Brian D. McGrew <brian@visionpro.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 07:00 -0800, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > > Hey guys- > > > > Have a Precision workstation with SATA hard drive and SATA CD-ROM. If > I > > load Fedora Core 5 with a stock 2.6.15 kernel, life is good. > > > > However, I need to use 2.6.16.16. Once I build and install this > kernel, > > my CD-ROM drive is gone. There is a log entry in dmesg that says > "ATAPI > > not support. Ignoring." > > > > If I go into the BIOS and set the SATA operations to Legacy/Compatible > > then everything is fine. I've rebuilt this kernel about 100 times > > trying everything I can think of. > > > > When I have SATA set to legacy, the HDD and CD are detected as > /dev/hd* > > and when they're set to SATA Normal operation the HDD is detected as > > /dev/sda. If I boot my old 2.6.15 (stock install) kernel then the CD > is > > found as /dev/sdc. > > > > I've even tried taking the installation default configuration file for > > the 2.6.15 kernel and just wholesale copying it into my 2.6.16.16 > kernel > > and build that way but still no go. > > > > What am I missing to get the 2.6.16.16 kernel to see a SATA CD-ROM > drive > > in normal, non-legacy move? > > Try booting 2.6.16 with the following options: > > libata.atapi_enabled=1 ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe > ----- > > Still no go. /dev/sda* is created for the hard drive but no CD-ROM and > the same ATAPI error in dmesg. >
I would try the following:
yum update and boot the kernel and see what modules are linked to the cdrom. I am thinking it is the sr_mod module. I would check to see if its compiled in the 2.6.16 code.
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