On Sul, 2005-03-20 at 15:27, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > other ata controllers which then report errors as they can't be unloaded > - though i read somewhere on this list that this was by design???).
IDE is designed to be compiled in. There is a lot to do to fix that. -ac has hackish unload support in test but the right solution is refcounting and driver model based and is in Bartlomiej's dev tree. > all cd ripping/reading tools for audio/multimedia cds report unable to > initialize /dev/cdrom (a link to cdrom device). Are you sure it points to the right device. I've seen similar reports where /dev/cdrom ended up pointing at the hard disk when the it8212 is added. Seems some distributions get confused when an IDE controller decides it wants to be first. > mode anyway. no change with either setting. if i disable the controller > from the bios, all is ok and i have full expected access to both cd and > dvd drives with all tools/apps etc. enabling again, i lose them beyond > simple data mounts. Sounds like the /dev/cdrom link is wrong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
