--- ./linux-2.6.18/drivers/ata/Kconfig	2006-10-09 22:09:35.000000000 -0400
+++ ../linux-2.6.18/drivers/ata/Kconfig	2006-10-09 22:04:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,9 +15,38 @@
 	  the name of your ATA host adapter (the card inside your computer
 	  that "speaks" the ATA protocol, also called ATA controller),
 	  because you will be asked for it.
+	  NOTE: 
+	  You will also need to select the ata device interface drivers below, 
+	  to actually use the drives that libata detects.
 
 if ATA
 
+config ATA_DISK
+	tristate "ATA Disk Support"
+	select BLK_DEV_SD
+	depends on SCSI
+	---help---
+	    Select this if you have ata disk drives. Devices will be
+	    connected to traditional scsi device nodes. eg. sda
+
+	
+config ATA_OPTICAL
+	tristate "ATA CD/DVD Rom Support"
+	select BLK_DEV_SR
+	depends on SCSI
+	---help---
+	    Select this if you have ata CD/DVD optical drives. Devices 
+	    will be connected to traditional scsi device nodes. eg. sr0
+	
+config ATA_GENERIC
+	tristate "ATA Generic support (CD/DVD Writer)"
+	select BLK_DEV_SG
+	depends on SCSI
+	---help---
+	    Select this if you have ata optical writers or anything 
+	    supported by libata that's not a disk drive. Devices will be 
+	    connected to the traditional scsi device nodes. eg. sg0
+	    
 config SATA_AHCI
 	tristate "AHCI SATA support"
 	depends on PCI