Re: libata PATA drivers patch for 2.6.16-rc4

[Mark Lord]

Francesco Biscani wrote:
> Feb 20 22:06:17 kurtz ata2(0): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.
..
> The CDROM on the second ide channel was not recognized (what's up with that 
> WARNING?).

Dunno.  For some odd reason libata still doesn't want to handle ATAPI
devices out-of-the-box.  There's a boot/module option for it, though,
as well as this patch (attached).
--- linux.old/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c	2006-02-14 12:10:33.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c	2006-02-16 11:42:58.000000000 -0500
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 static unsigned int ata_unique_id = 1;
 static struct workqueue_struct *ata_wq;
 
-int atapi_enabled = 0;
+int atapi_enabled = 1;
 module_param(atapi_enabled, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(atapi_enabled, "Enable discovery of ATAPI devices (0=off, 1=on)");