Enabling ATAPI libata in Fedora kernels?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Nov 23 20:06:49 UTC 2005


On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:21:50AM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
 > I currently using the 2.6.14-1.1696_FC5 kernel on my notebook.  My hard
 > drive is on /dev/sda and lspci says:
 > 
 > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
 > 
 > Currently, my DVD/CD-RW drive appears as /dev/hdc.  It has no DMA
 > support.  Thus, if I use xine to play a DVD with the processor running
 > full out (1.6GHz), it jumps and studders much worse than my 6 year old
 > notebook (300MHz, PII).

SATA ATAPI is enabled in the current builds, they may not have gone
out to rawhide yet due to the test1 freeze.  You can grab them early
at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/devel/

		Dave




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