From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HmGxo-0003CC-IW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:18:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4AMH0bf029910; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:17:00 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx (c-24-245-14-14.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.14.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4AMCad0025230 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:36 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2886F1D6D0 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 17:12:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:12:36 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but "rules" seem correct-FIXED-or, not Message-ID: <20070510171236.416c40fa@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <643461.72977.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <200705100922.01544.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <643461.72977.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cfbf0056-a7a5-456a-a669-ef21b83ad292 X-Archives-Hash: cb19327b1706b593816d5bf98beb6d9b On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:50:34 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler wrote: > > --- Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 9 08:25 > > > cdrom -> hdc > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 9 08:25 > > > cdrom1 -> hdd > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 9 08:25 > > cdrw > > > -> hdc > > > [ /dev device nodes for cdroms ] > > > appear since loading ide-generic.ko > > > For one thing, generic IDE support is certainly less appropriate than support for your IDE card. Hardware-specific options cna be enabled and you might gain DMA if your hardware is really unusual. I can say from experience that generic ide support doesn't provide anything that drivers specific to your hardware fails to provide, unless I misunderstand greatly. It's not a question of increased functionality necessarily, but one of performance, and possibly less overhead for the CPU. Secondly, in addition to some kind of driver for IDE, either generic or specific, you need the cdrom driver (module: cdrom.ko) for cdrom support. My guess is, you upgraded the kernel and fell into the commonly experienced PATA driver burn -- there's two driver sets now, an experimental one and the old ones, and you have to make sure to get the right one for your configuration. Dont forget, you'll also need to have the ISO9660 and possibly UDF filesysem supported. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list