Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

[Rick Knight]

Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
> Rick Knight wrote:
>   
>> I'll file the bug report as you, suggest, tonight or this weekend. But
>> until I hear a respones to the bug report, is there anyway to force the
>> newer kernel to setup drives by path with hdxn instead of sdxn? Also, if
>> I do rebuild the kernel, which module(s) do I need to activate?
>>     
>
> It seems to me that VIA82Cxxx chipset support is included in the Gutsy
> kernel image. BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is enabled as a module in
> /boot/config-2.6.22-14-generic.
>
> Try adding the following lines to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules:
>
> via82cxxx
> ide-disk
> ide-cd
> ide-generic
>
> and then type:
>
> $ sudo update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.22-14-generic
>
> After that, reboot into the Gutsy kernel. If you can now successfully
> boot the Gutsy kernel, libata is to blame. ;)
>
> Wenzhuo
>   
Wenzhuo,

That's almost done it. I can see my two CD drives, /dev/hdc and 
/dev/hdd. It seems that something else is still missing, or maybe I need 
to take something out. Would anything else be effected by taking out libata?

Thanks again,
Rick Knight