Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-22 Thread csj
On 20. October 2005 at 6:43PM +0100, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Perhaps what we need is a more streamlined kernel building > process. The current fallback is "roll your own kernel". I > would agree that this mentality has to go at some point. To me the important thing is that the s

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-21 Thread Basajaun
Bruno Buys wrote: > Basajaun wrote: [snip] > >Yes, the 2.4 does fine. Since SATA is seen as IDE by 2.4, the ide-* > >modules are loaded, then the IDE devices are seen. The problem under > >2.6 is to have some SCSI modules loaded _first_, so they get hold of > >the ide[01] channels, and actual IDE

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-21 Thread Bruno Buys
Basajaun wrote: Michael Gregg wrote: 1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and somehow this makes the install program not see the

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-21 Thread .
Hi, thanks for your input on this! I plan on switching to amd64 this weekend, and if I´m lucky, the DVD drive will work with that. If it doesn´t, I´ll try to get a SCSI drive off ebay and wait for newer kernel versions to have improved support for SATA. A most amazing thing was the almost total

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-21 Thread Basajaun
Michael Gregg wrote: > > >>1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 > > >>kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the > > >>kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and > > >>somehow this makes the install program not see the

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Gregg
> >>1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 > >>kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the > >>kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and > >>somehow this makes the install program not see the IDE CD drive it is > >>bein

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: > Somehow I fail to see how changing the source file of a module one has > to subsequently recompile can qualify as "works pretty well". Damn, we > are not in the dark ages were Linux users were suposed (required) to be > computer geeks. The SATA ATAPI support

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-20 Thread Bruno Buys
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: marc wrote: Hi, [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] 1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ u

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Basajaun wrote: > Somehow I fail to see how changing the source file of a module one has > to subsequently recompile can qualify as "works pretty well". Damn, we > are not in the dark ages were Linux users were suposed (required) to be > computer geeks. Compiling something (and compiling a kernel

Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: > marc wrote: > > > Hi, > > > [snip] > > [snip] > [snip] > > [snip] > [snip] > > 1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6 > kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the > kernel. This is so

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
marc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I´m trying to get a Plextor 712-SA DVD drive working on an Asus A8N-SLI > > with kernel 2.6.13. I can load the libata and sata_nv modules, and there > > are messages about adding and removing SATA devices. Also, it says the > > SATA device on the first SATA port, which i

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Chris Boot
On 20 Oct 2005, at 10:05, . wrote: Hi, I´m trying to get a Plextor 712-SA DVD drive working on an Asus A8N- SLI with kernel 2.6.13. I can load the libata and sata_nv modules, and there are messages about adding and removing SATA devices. Also, it says the SATA device on the first SATA port

SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread .
Hi, I´m trying to get a Plextor 712-SA DVD drive working on an Asus A8N-SLI with kernel 2.6.13. I can load the libata and sata_nv modules, and there are messages about adding and removing SATA devices. Also, it says the SATA device on the first SATA port, which is the DVD drive, is being configur