From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OuiVW-0001kQ-PO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:05:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2A08E08A4; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783E7E08A4 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE12DEBC8 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:05:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K77RNcQv8lzd for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:05:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70416DEB78 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:05:07 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: undetected DVD r/w device Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:05:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <1283763300.4c84ac640b3cc@imp.free.fr> <201009111924.16277.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009121005.06353.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7abfd01e-11bc-4b12-9583-23e7ea811339 X-Archives-Hash: 0db347b6f51a08bba0987e5ce8218fc6 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.