Make Linux happy with a modern laptop’s CD/DVD drive
Posted in hardware, linux on December 12th, 2006 8 Comments »
If you’re using a fairly modern laptop with an Intel chipset, the chances are that it has an Intel ICH7 I/O controller hub:
$ lspci | grep -i ide
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)
This usually means that your internal hard disk and CD-ROM/DVD drive (if you have [...]