Re: Bug#500250: CD/DVD not working
debian-bug@trashmail.net wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 17:56:13 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
>>> The CD/DVD reader/writer of my Acer 5920g notebook (santarosa) doesn't
>>> work.
>> right.
>
> It seems related to ICH8 PATA controller of SantaRosa chipset.
> After a BIOS upgrade it *seems* to work, but it's strange, because the
> device is /dev/hda and not /dev/scd0.
> I google it and I think that this is a problem related to the
> pata-postpone-patch of ata_piix
> Don't you think a good idea to drop that patch?
> Probably there are a lot of user with that chipset and without
> a BIOS upgrade available.
> Using Ubuntu I don't have any problem related to ata_piix.
> Thank you for your time.
> 'Bye.
Excuse me, I'm just curious if you can test DMA when the device is
named /dev/hda. I do it with hdparm -i and with -tT
thanks
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