Linux cannot access the optical drive on the Marquis C515

Problem:

Details:

The stock Fedora Core and RHEL4/CentOS 4.x kernels do not recognize the onboard Marvell IDE controller.

Solution:

In order to access the IDE controller, the following kernel parameter must be passed to the boot loader.

all-generic-ide=1

To make a permanent change, append the entry to /boot/grub.conf. Here is a sample content:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS-4 x86_64 (2.6.9-42.ELsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet numa=on all-ge
neric-ide=1
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img

This option is not required if using the ASL kernel version 2.6.17-1.2157_FCXasl.3 or greater.

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Linux cannot access the optical drive on the Marquis C515

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