Re: DVD RW drive not recognized

[Alexandru Cabuz <alexcabuz@gmail.com>]

> Generally using ide-generic is a bad idea (it does not allow DMA) and
> the specific driver should be used instead.

This is true, now that you mention it. I can't enable DMA, which is
particularly annoying when playing DVDs. The image is jerky.

What specific driver should be used? ide-cd? 

And more generally, how does one know what driver goes with a
particular piece of hardware? I've been googling for weeks, and I
wtill can't figure out how people know that with this or that
controller, or card: "Oh, you need to load such and such module,
because the other one does not support such and such...". Is there
some searchable database somewhere that tells you what module to load
with a particular piece of hardware?

Alex.


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:59:59 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
<brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Alexandru Cabuz <alexcabuz@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
> 
> > Turns out there was some kind of bug in the ata_piix module so that it
> > had to be loaded after the ide_generic module and all kinds of
> > incomprehensible kernel babble, all of which can be skipped by simply
> > installing 2.6.9. I was still on 2.6.8.
> >
> > Now my DVD burner is detected and everything is cool.
> >
> > Alex.
> 
> Generally using ide-generic is a bad idea (it does not allow DMA) and
> the specific driver should be used instead. For ata_pixx that might be
> different.
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin
>