Comment 19 for bug 782389

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Ming Lei (tom-leiming) wrote : Re: [Bug 782389] Re: DVD drive doesn't work on MacBookPro8,2

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Rohan Garg <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi
> I remember that when i first installed Oneiric on my Macbook Pro 8,2 sometime in June, it did not work, i've tried previous kernels and i don't know how, but its working on all of them. Attached is the output of lspci, dmesg and a couple of other commands that might help you. Let me know if you require any other info.
>
> ** Attachment added: "lspci.txt"

From [1], you have enabled ahci mode, so it does work for you.
If you switch to IDE compatible mode in BIOS, I think your dvd drive
won't work even on 3.0.0-11-generic .

[1], ahci
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series
Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:1c03] (rev 05)
(prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
 I/O ports at 3148 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 315c [size=4]
 I/O ports at 3140 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 3158 [size=4]
 I/O ports at 3060 [size=32]
 Memory at 8fa00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ahci
 Kernel modules: ahci

thanks
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Ming Lei