DG965RY motherboard - FC6 doesn't recognise DVD

[H.Breimer]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:43:04 -0800 (PST)
David Scriven <davidwriter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm running a fully updated FC6 on a Core 2 Duo system that has a
> DG965RY motherboard. The DVD writer (LG GSA-10N) is not recognized by
> the system. i.e. there is no device allocated to it and dmesg shows
> no sign of it being detected.
> 
> lspci -v shows:
> 
> 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device
> 6101 (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem:
> Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 Flags: bus master,
> fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 I/O ports at 1018 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at 1024 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at 1010 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at 1020 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at 1000 [size=16]
>         Memory at 52100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> which apparently is known to have problems with FC6.
> 
> I tried the kernel option "all_generic_ide" but with no success
> This is a dual boot system and everything works OK in Win XP.
> Suggestions - or do I have to wait for an updated kernel?
> 
> 

I had to use "all-generic-ide" and "ircpoll" as boot options.

Henk