[gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

[gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

[Charles Marcus]

Anyone got this to work?

Would appreciate any pointers...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

[Jeff]

Yeah man. I have mine at my desktop working just fine.

In your kernel compile, you need to peek at the low-level SCSI drivers 
section, and see that your drive might appear in there, as well as, pay 
attention to the naming convention that Linux uses in /etc/fstab for 
SATA devices - for instance, my hard drive is also SATA. Instead of 
/dev/hda, it now becomes /dev/sda.

Charles Marcus wrote:

> Anyone got this to work?
> 
> Would appreciate any pointers...
> 
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[gentoo-user] Re: Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

[Charles Marcus]

>> Anyone got this to work?
>>
>> Would appreciate any pointers...

 > Yeah man. I have mine at my desktop working just fine.
 >
 > In your kernel compile, you need to peek at the low-level SCSI drivers
 > section, and see that your drive might appear in there, as well as,
 > pay
 > attention to the naming convention that Linux uses in /etc/fstab for
 > SATA devices - for instance, my hard drive is also SATA. Instead of
 > /dev/hda, it now becomes /dev/sda.

Thanks Jeff! I'll give it another try tomorrow...

At least now I know it is possible...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 11:45, Charles Marcus 
<cmarcus@media-brokers.com> wrote about '[gentoo-user]  Install Gentoo 
with SATA DVD/CD drive?':
> Anyone got this to work?

Normally, SATA CD/DVD drives are not picked up by the current or mm 
kernels.

There is a libata module option: atapi_enabled since ~2.6.14.  If you are 
booting a kernel of that version or greater, simply append 
libata.atapi_enabled=1 to the kernel (if libata is compiled in) or 
modprobe command-line.

If you are using a livecd with an older kernel version, you'll just have to 
hope that the livecd builder applied the necessary patch to older kernels 
to support ATA_ATAPI -- the patch is rather trivial, so if you have other 
hardware that forces you to use one of these older kernels during initial 
install, contact me and I can tell you what to patch. [Heck, I use a 
similar, trivial patch instead or passing a module parameter.]

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