Subject: Re: SATA DVD support?
To: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/28/2007 00:40:21
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:48:41AM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2007 09:02:54 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:35:47AM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> > > Are SATA DVD and CDROM devices supported on NetBSD-current? I've a LG
> > > SATA dual layer DVD drive that isn't detected.
> >
> > What's your controller? AHCI got some ATAPI support a few days ago.
> >
> > Joerg
> 
> G'day,
> 
> sorry for late reply, but I was away from home. Here is what the kernel had to 
> say:
> 
> jmide0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: JMicron Technology JMB361 SATA/PATA 
> controller
> jmide0: 1 PATA port, 1 SATA port
> jmide0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 (irq 10)
> ahcisata0 at jmide0
> ahcisata0: AHCI revision 1.0, 2 ports, 32 command slots, features 0xc722e000
> atabus0 at ahcisata0 channel 0
> atabus1 at ahcisata0 channel 1
> 
> I don't have a SATA harddisk, so I can not verify if the controller works at 
> all.
> 
> I tried building a new release with current system sources, but it currently 
> fails during compilation of XEN kernels. I'm currently running NetBSD-i386 
> v4.99.34 as of 5th of November.

Your SATA ATAPI drive should work now in current ... at last I hope so :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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