Bug#261463: Missing drivers on powerpc 2.6 businesscard install
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:00:46AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> >>Installing on a PowerMac/6500 with a TEAC SCSI CD-RW drive, I had to
> >>use the 2.4 kernel because the 2.6 kernel couldn't find a driver for
> >>the CD.
> >
> >Do you know which module you need for this CD-RW drive?
>
> No. All I know is that it works fine with the 2.4 kernel.
> How can I find out?
/var/log/syslog on 2.4 might tell you.
> For what it's worth, the MacOS-9 Apple System Profiler says that
> it's a CD-W512B (rev 1.0E) manufactured by TEAC.
>
> Also for what it's worth, when I boot the 2.6 kernel and let it run
> up thru "detect and mount CD-ROM", then switch to the F2 console
> and look in /proc and /dev, I do not see any indication of SCSI
> devices at all. In particular, nothing in /dev/scsi (the directory
> exists, but there's nothing in it) and nothing mentioning scsi in
> the /proc/ide subdirectory tree. The machine has a 4GB SCSI disc
> and an 80 GB IDE dsic, and, while the ide disc is visible at this
> time, the scsi disc is nowhere to be found (/dev/discs show no
> trace of it.) When I do "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" it does not list
> any attached devices (neither CD-ROM nor 4GB disc, nor anything
> else).
Do you know if it's actually a SCSI drive, or does it run by IDE-SCSI
emulation? That said, we do have ide-scsi in the 2.6 initrd.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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