Re: DVD RW drive not recognized

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

Alexandru Cabuz <alexcabuz@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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? 

ata-piix

> 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?

Mostly people just know or do an eductaed guess from the name.
But there is (are) the pci ID database in the kernel (and discover and
similar) that correlate the vendor/product infos to kernel modules.

If you are intrested in this check out hotplug support or discover.

> Alex.

MFG
        Goswin