From: aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM   
      
   On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:47:30 +0100, J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   >AZ Nomad wrote:   
   >> Has anybody been able to get a lite-on LH-20A1L dvdrw to work?   
   >>   
   >> My motherboard has two SATA controllers, an nforce4, and a sil3114.  The   
   >> dvdrw doesn't work with either.   
   >>   
   >> Am I missing some driver, one for SATA optical drives?   
   >>   
   >> The drive shows up in dmesg, and /proc/scsi/scsi, but it doesn't get a drive   
   >> letter and I can't mount or give it an eject command.   
   I didn't mean a DOS drive letter.  I meant something like   
   /dev/sdb   
      
      
   >Add it manually to your /etc/fstab   
   >/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660     noauto,users,ro 0 0   
      
   If there's no dev, there's not much you can do in fstab.   
      
   I made some progress last night.  I read after a google search that the old   
   pata   
   driver "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" conflicts, so I compiled a kernel without   
   it.  What I got was a system where I lost my old PATA dvdrw and still didn't   
   have my new SATA dvdrw.   
      
   I returned to the kernel params and looked in the scsi area and tried the   
   scsi cdrom driver again.  When I tried that earlier, it led to a system   
   that locked up tight during bootup.  I figured that with the old PATA driver   
   gone, it might behave better.  This time around, I got two new devices,   
   /dev/sr0 and dev/sr1, the PATA (sr0) and SATA (sr1) dvdrw drives!   
      
   success!   
      
   Well,  not quite.  dvd::rip hangs when trying to rip from the new sata   
   dvdrip.  Back to using the old one for now.   
      
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