SATA DVD support

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:27 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:04 -0400, Fedora wrote:
> > What is the status of SATA DVD support (Plextor PX-716SA) in Fedora 4?
> 
> The question would be more for the chipset you're going to plug it into.
> SATA mostly represents itself as a SCSI device under the 2.6 kernel
> tree, so since I seem to recall SCSI cdroms working, I can't think of
> too many reasons why a SATA CDROM device wouldn't.  Have you tried this
> device and ran into problems?  Is there something that makes you think
> it won't work?

It won't work; support for ATAPI devices in libata is not enabled in the
Fedora kernels, on the advice of the code's author.

Hopefully jgarzik will chime in on this, but I don't think he's on this
list, so I've Cc'd him.
-- 
  Peter