[clue-tech] SATA DVD drive

[dperkins at frii.com]

> So your SATA stuff appears as SCSI to the kernel?

Yes.  I don't know why they decided to do it this way.

> Could you post the output from your kernel's SCSI probe?  Like this,
> from my system:
>
> # cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SONY     Model: SDT-9000         Rev: 0400
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: UMAX     Model: Astra 1200S      Rev: V2.9
>   Type:   Scanner                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SONY     Model: CD-RW  CRX145S   Rev: 1.0b
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 04
>
>> I'm thinking that the drive might be defective, but does anyone know of
>> some kernel module that I might be missing?
>
> For SCSI CD-ROM drives to work you need these modules loaded:
>
> sr_mod                 16952   0  (autoclean)
> cdrom                  31104   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod]
> scsi_mod              103464   5  [sym53c8xx_2 sg sr_mod st sd_mod]
>
> Obviously my SCSI controller is a 53c815 PCI card, not a SATA
> adapter, but in any case you should post a list of all modules
> loaded on your system (lsmod).  Then we can see what's missingm
> if anything.
>

I'll check these later, when I have time.  Not much free time in December. :)

Thanks.


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