On 1/21/2011 1:07 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL > support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel. > Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to > get ATAPI CDROMs to work. > > Are we all supposed to rip out the drives and replace them with SATA > CDROM drives? > > I get the impression that "Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers" > section is supposed to support ATAPI CDROM drives, but I've never been > ble to get that to work. > > What am I missing? >
Under the Serial/Parallel ATA section is a section specifically for legacy IDE devices; it's listed as "ATA SFF Support". >From there you just need to pick the correct DMA interface; most likely yours will be somewhere in the Bus-Master DMA list, "ATA BMDMA Support", with whatever IDE chipset you have. You'll also need to enable SCSI CD-ROM support even if your CD-ROM isn't SCSI; I'd also recommend not enabling SCSI Generic support unless you absolutely have to; for some reason my CD-ROM drive kept getting hooked up to the sg driver instead of the sr driver, and udev didn't believe it was a CD-ROM anymore. --Mike
