Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.11 AC patch CD/DVD issues | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:43:39 +0000 |
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On Sul, 2005-03-20 at 15:27, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > other ata controllers which then report errors as they can't be unloaded > - though i read somewhere on this list that this was by design???).
IDE is designed to be compiled in. There is a lot to do to fix that. -ac has hackish unload support in test but the right solution is refcounting and driver model based and is in Bartlomiej's dev tree.
> all cd ripping/reading tools for audio/multimedia cds report unable to > initialize /dev/cdrom (a link to cdrom device).
Are you sure it points to the right device. I've seen similar reports where /dev/cdrom ended up pointing at the hard disk when the it8212 is added. Seems some distributions get confused when an IDE controller decides it wants to be first.
> mode anyway. no change with either setting. if i disable the controller > from the bios, all is ok and i have full expected access to both cd and > dvd drives with all tools/apps etc. enabling again, i lose them beyond > simple data mounts.
Sounds like the /dev/cdrom link is wrong
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