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

[Dale]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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".
>
>

lol  You do like I do.  I post then figure it out or find a workaround.  
lol  Glad I am not alone on doing this.  ;-)

Then again, sometimes I post and none of us can figure it out or we 
scratch heads for a day or two and some shot in the dark fixes it.

Dale

:-)  :-)