Re: DVD RW drive not recognized

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

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