sata dvdr with nforce4

[puremourning]

is the plextor px-712sa ATAPI dvd rewriter supported under the sata_nv driver (is this even maintained by nvidia?). I am having problems with it. relevant dmesg bits are:

libata version 1.02 loaded.
sata_nv version 0.03
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xCC00 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xCC08 irq 11
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi0 : sata_nv
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4063 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4063 88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 586114704 sectors: lba48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_nv
  Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6B300S0    Rev: BANC
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xE000 irq 10
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xE008 irq 10
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi2 : sata_nv
ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 88:0407
ata4: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
scsi3 : sata_nv
SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

but no /dev/sda2 - it only recognises my h/d. anyone got any ideas?

[deufre]

I find a partial solution somewhere : you have to edit the libata.h file in /include/linux to enable atapi support in libata :
change :
#undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */
for :
#define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */

and compile your kernel.

i tried it and it works except that after recognizing my Drive, it still didn't configure it i get a timeout error.
my drive firmware is 1.06
i tell you this because i get that trick from someone having the same problem and for whom it fixed it. but he has intel chipset and firmware 1.04.
maybe many other differences, but if you try it and find it's working please tell me so i'll maybe have more ideas what to do now.

[Lithorus]

What kernel versions are people using?