[gentoo-user] Re: Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-01-21, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL
> support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel.
> Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to
> get ATAPI CDROMs to work.
>
> Are we all supposed to rip out the drives and replace them with SATA
> CDROM drives?
>
> I get the impression that "Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers"
> section is supposed to support ATAPI CDROM drives, but I've never been
> ble to get that to work.
>
> What am I missing?

Doh!

I've been messing with this on and off for days, and 2 minutes after I
posted that I noticed that under "Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers"
I had "NVIDIA SATA support" enabled, but I had overlooked "AMD/NVidia
PATA support".

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