Re: "ATAPI Unknown (type 14) device" message

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:10:22 +0100

Andres Kruse wrote:
> since many releases of the 2.1 kernel and still in the 2.2 kernel I get
> upon bootup

Do you now when _excactly_ this broke?

> hda.........................ATAPI Unknown (type 14) device

ATAPI 2.6 lists 14 as being a reserved type - the correct type
for compliant CD-ROMs is 5.

> The device in question is a CD-ROM drive, type CDU711.

Is this a Sony drive?

> Oh, needless to say that I can't see the CD-ROM drive from
> within Linux.

Booting with hda=cdrom should solve your problem.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
* "The only thing that interferes with my
*  learning is my education." -- A. Einstein


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