Enabing SATA CD/DVD drives in Linux

If you get the following error when booting after installing a SATA CD or DVD drive:

ata2(0): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.

Then you will need to activate ATAPI devices for the SATA drive module. To do this add the following to your lilo config:

append="libata.atapi_enabled=1"

Then re-run lilo and reboot.

Last updated: 13/07/2007