Re: CD burner not working with kernel 2.6
Anthony Roberts(anthony-spamtrap@shaw.ca) is reported to have said:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> >I know it is frustrating when your knee deep in mud and trying to get
> >out but the more info you give the better it is for someone to help.
> >I've been there as well so no need to apologize.
> >
> >Now for the question. Did you find what the problem was _and_ what
> >was the solution? Just so others might benifit.
> >
> >
> I found out what the problem was, and I don't have a solution but I do have
> a workaround. See the message with subject:
>
> "CD burner not working with kernel 2.6 (update, I know what's going on)"
Yep, found it. I had missed it due to the 'new' thread. :-(
>
> Executive summary: libata is used by default when SATA is available, but
> it doesn't support PATA devices yet. Initially I was going to put the burner
> in my server, but it occured to me that I had a promise ATA controller
> lying around somewhere so I decided
> to give that a shot.
>
> I connected the burner to that and it's recognized and it works fine.
> Apparently the bug is limited to breaking PATA support only for the chipset
> that has SATA support. As the promise controller is a completely different
> device, it works fine.
>
> It's profoundly annoying as I will eventually need that card, but I'm
> willing
> to live with it for now. As long as the kernel people STOP BREAKING THINGS.
>
> This is about the 4th time a post-2.6.0 bug has personally affected me. The
> kernel developers are dreaming if they think the distros have access to the
> variety of systems required to stabalize their kernels properly (had
> problems
> more or less like this with SUSE, if anyone has the money they do).
Thanks for the summary. This should help others that have moved to
SATA devices.
I agree with you about the kernel changes... I, finally, got UDF
working correctly on DVD's by going to the 2.6.10 branch. I am hoping
it will continue in future versions (even it works differently then
the Debian docs say it does).
>
> Even Windows doesn't break this much.
Don't know about that. I haven't used windows in 12 years. Widsows
was really bad back then.
WT
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