On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I have a feeling the IDE may be JMicron like yours, is this a problem if I add an IDE CD drive?
If you want to use the IDE interface part of the JMicron, give the kernel options
all-generic-ide irqpoll
Ah, there's an odd message myabe relating to this when I boot from the CD, I'll try adding the above anyway.
I was wrong about my CD/DVD drive, it is actually an IDE drive so it may well be that the above will get it to work.
If you have trouble, get one of these
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=176415
This will allow you to attach the writer to the SATA Bus. not bad for �7
and that should allow it to work. Alledegly 2.6.18 supports the IDE part of the JMicron. The SATA part will be handled by the AHCI driver, so long as it's set to this mode in the BIOS.
Yes, 2.6.18 does seem to be the possible answer, is it stable yet?
It went stable a couple of days ago
This is what I get in my dmesg log for my DVD writer using the adaptor mentioned in the link above.
Vendor: _NEC Model: DVD_RW ND-4570A Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
HTH
Chris