On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Does anyone know why my dvdwriter isn't being assigned a '/dev/sdx' number
>> when dmesg says its found ok at ata2.00? I've turned on an option that
>> says something about using the bios for device access this build, but I'll
>> be surprised if that's it. :)
>
>I think you mean /dev/scdx not /dev/sdx. Make sure you have the 'sr'
>driver compiled and load (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR).
>
That menu item COULD be moved, I don't have any REAL scsi stuff, so I didn't
look there. My bad, with help from hiding it like that. :-)
>The bios-for-dev-access thing definitely won't help, and may hurt (by
>taking over the device you wanted to test).
>
Ok, if BLK_DEV_SR fails, I'll take that back out. I'm heating the room making
kernels here. :)
Thanks Jeff.
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