Enabling ATAPI libata in Fedora kernels?

[Paul Dickson]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:57:12 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:04:13AM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
>  > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:06:49 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > 
>  > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:21:50AM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
>  > >  > I currently using the 2.6.14-1.1696_FC5 kernel on my notebook.  My hard
>  > >  > drive is on /dev/sda and lspci says:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Currently, my DVD/CD-RW drive appears as /dev/hdc.  It has no DMA
>  > >  > support.  Thus, if I use xine to play a DVD with the processor running
>  > >  > full out (1.6GHz), it jumps and studders much worse than my 6 year old
>  > >  > notebook (300MHz, PII).
>  > > 
>  > > SATA ATAPI is enabled in the current builds, they may not have gone
>  > > out to rawhide yet due to the test1 freeze.  You can grab them early
>  > > at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/devel/
>  > 
>  > According to the rawhide report that was sent out after my message but
>  > before your's, it was enabled in 1707, which I yum-updated to.
>  > 
>  > I was able to get the DVD/CD-RW to appear on /dev/scd0 after booting with
>  > the "hdc=none" option.  DMA appears to be working too.
> 
> If you have a 'combined mode' setting in your bios, and you disable
> it, you should be able to not have to do the 'hdc=none' thing too.

I rebooted yesterday and looked through the Inspiron 6000's BIOS page.
No such option.  It actually has very few options available, and nothing
regarding IDE.  Most options are for turning hardware devices on/off.

	-Paul