On Thursday 19 January 2006 11:45, Charles Marcus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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