On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Daiajo Tibdixious <dai...@gmail.com> posted > a4a9bfcb0905032003i26abb9ccj4d7c7422bc466...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted > below, on Mon, 04 May 2009 03:03:02 +0000: > >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Drake Donahue <donahu...@comcast.net> >> wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:02 +0000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: >>>> When I boot off the live CD there is a /dev/hda /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw >>>> /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw etc & it works just fine. >>>> >>>> When I boot off my kernel there are no such devices & I can't use the >>>> drive. >>>> >>>> This is the same drive as in my old system, which just worked with no >>>> tweaking before. >>>> >>>> Obviously I am missing some driver, yet I have grovelled thru >>>> menuconfig to no avail. >>>> Google turns up many similar problems, however none have been helpful. >>>> >>>> If I boot off the live cd, is there a way to see what options I need? >>>> >>>> The drive shows as "PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109" on the live cd. > > Just saw this again after your reply to DD. I think you're correct, the > device isn't showing up (missing driver), so it's not even getting to the > hal/dbus stage. > > I just googled that drive, ATAPI/IDE it looks like, right? > > IDE can use two different driver sets in the kernel. There's still the > old IDE drivers (ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support), but there's also the libata > based drivers (Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) > drivers). The latter are what most folks (including me) use these days. > Let's see if I can find the stuff in my kernel config that the ATAPI DVD- > Writers use: > > Under Device Drivers: > > As mentioned, the SATA/PATA option, which simply enables that entire > submenu to be chosen from. > > Under SATA/PATA support, ATA SFF support, which again, enables a whole > list of individual device drivers to be chosen from. > > Under ATA SFF, choose your specific hardware drivers. Here, I have > Silicon Image SATA support for my SATA ports (symbol SATA_SIL, which > would be unrelated to anything IDE except that they still use the legacy > SFF interface, thus they are listed under ATA SFF) and AMD/NVidia PATA > support for my legacy PATA ports, which is what my DVD-writers are on. > > Of course you will most likely have different hardware, but if you're > using the newer SATA/PATA option and SFF, as would be recommended if you > have SATA ports at all so as to avoid having both that and the legacy IDE > drivers, it will likely be found here, under ATA SFF. > > If you don't see your specific hardware, Generic ATA support should work > using the BIOS config, altho it's possible/likely you won't get full > speed DMA without the chipset specific drivers. If you end up using the
Enabling the generic driver gave me a /dev/sr0 & the drive now works. > generic option and don't get full speed, google your specific board model > at google.com/linux (thus limiting it to the Linux subdomain and reducing > your general and MS platform hits), and see if you get anything useful, Thanks for that link, I didn't know about it. I'll look into the specific chip driver later on, as I have a more severe problem (which I'll post in another thread).
