cd writer missing after F7 upgrade
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Jun 2 02:04:53 UTC 2007
Kam Leo wrote:
> On 6/1/07, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:07:16 -0700 (PDT)
>> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This is an easy one. Frank. Put in a data cd/audio
>> > cd in it and reboot. Your other drive should be
>> > there! It is not the prettiest solution, but it has
>> > worked for me with Rawhide.
>>
>> I wish it was that easy. Unfortunately, it appears to be a bios issue
>> of some
>> kind.
>>
>> The default bios SATA setting of "enabled" worked fine with FC6; the
>> computer
>> booted off of the hard drive and found the cdrom and everything.
>>
>> However, the "enabled" setting doesn't work well with Fedora 7. It
>> gives me a
>> "ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)" error message
>> repeated three
>> times over the course of about two minutes immediately after the Red
>> Hat Nash
>> line, before it continues to boot up normally. The cdrom is not detected
>> after boot-up.
>>
>
> I'm getting the same error and it's occuring in a VMware Workstation
> 5.5.4 guest OS environment.
>
> Chalk this problem as a kernel driver change bug.
>
> I'll try another install using SCSI disk emulation instead of IDE and
> see if the problem surfaces there.
FWIW, I installed F7 on WMware Workstation 6 and have no issues.
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