Re: [gentoo-user] Re: undetected DVD r/w device

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Sunday 12 September 2010 01:15:56 walt wrote:
> On 09/11/2010 11:24 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:50:04 Mick wrote:
> >> Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon
> > 
> > I hope it won't. I have one box whose drives the new drivers cannot
> > detect - at least, nothing I've tried has worked so far.
> 
> That seems very odd.  Is there something exotic about those drives?

Nothing at all. Bog-standard IDE disk and ATA CD-ROM in a Compaq Evo P4 
box. The disk controller is an Intel 82801DB ICH4 according to lspci.

> The new driver sees the controller but the controller doesn't see
> the drives?

Grub (or do I mean init?) can't find a kernel to boot.

> Or, if the kernel doesn't see the controller then maybe consider
> adding the SATA_AHCI driver as a test.

I think the box predates AHCI, though it may be worth a try. I don't 
remember now which options I did try when I was trying to get the new 
kernel drivers to work.

> I'm still a bit confused when trying to figure out which controller
> uses which driver, but I've been tripped up with that particular
> driver before.

Yes, me too. I have one box on which I had to switch AHCI off in the BIOS 
to enable the installation CD to boot, then back on again to boot the  
installed system.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.