Plextor 716SA DVD

[Damian Gerow]

Thus spake Alastair G. Hogge (agh at tpg.com.au) [17/04/06 04:38]:
: > root at dementia.afflictions.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/dementia  amd64 % dmesg
: > | grep acd
: >     acd0: DVDROM <Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-120S/1.01> at ata0-slave
: > UDMA66 %
: dmesg | grep cd
: acd0: CDRW <SONY CD-RW CRX175E/1.0j> at ata0-master PIO4
: cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
: cd0: <SONY CD-RW  CRX175E 1.0j> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
: cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers
: 
: Still no PX-716SA

Same here.  I updated yesterday, hoping to get it working, but
(unsurprisingly), it's still not showing up.

: I'm begining to think my hardware is stuffed. It shows up in the BIOS and I 
: can boot from it, plus I only bought it with in a couple of months ago.

I wouldn't jump to conclusions just yet.  I don't think Soren has merged the
SATA burner code in to the tree:

    <http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-jan-2006-mar-2006.html#Status-Report-ATA-project>

It makes sense that it would be in the BIOS, and that you can boot from it.
But if the FreeBSD kernel doesn't know about SATA CD-ROM drives, it won't
find it.