Plextor PX-712SA + FC3

[Robert J. Carr]

Thanks for the reply.

> You are not running the latest kernel. Please update. This a) fixes
> possible root exploits and b) may solve your problem with the SATA
> drive. The current one is kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3.

Okay ... I updated, now I'm running 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 as you indicated,
but still no luck.

> Any /var/log/messages entries when trying to mount CDs in the burner?

Well ... that is part of the problem, I don't know *how* to mount it,
or what to mount it with.  It isn't listed in fstab, and when I look
at the output from dmesg, I get:

SCSI subsystem initialized
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xFFFFFF000001C080 ctl 0xFFFFFF000001C08A
bmdma 0xFFFFFF000001C000 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xFFFFFF000001C0C0 ctl 0xFFFFFF000001C0CA
bmdma 0xFFFFFF000001C008 irq 11
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 398297088 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata2(0): applying bridge limits
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
scsi1 : sata_sil
  Using cfq io scheduler
  Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6B200M0    Rev: BANC
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

Which seems to detect the optical drive with these line here:

ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata2(0): applying bridge limits
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33

But when I go into /dev, all I see is sda (actually, I see sdb and
sdc, but those are my attached memory readers).

So ... does this make any sense to you?  It is like the drive is
picked up and configured, but not made available to mount.