cd writer missing after F7 upgrade

[Kam Leo]

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.

> Changing the SATA setting to "legacy" gives me several choices.
>
> 1. SATA P0/P2, PATA detects the hard drive and the cdrom in the bios, but gives
> me the above "ata1.00:failed" error just the same as the "enabled" setting.  It
> also boots from the hard drive and works, but doesn't detect the cdrom after
> boot-up.
>
> 2. SATA P1/P3,PATA won't boot at all and doesn't detect the cdrom in the bios.
>
> 3. PATA ONLY works just the same as #2 above.
>
> 4. SATAP0/P2,P1/P3 doesn't detect the cdrom in the bios but boots up from the
> hard drive without the "ata1.00:failed" error.  It doesn't detect the cdrom
> after boot-up either.
>
> Another bios setting on the same screen, "IDE bus master", doesn't appear to
> change anything if it's set to either enabled or disabled.  The default setting
> is enabled.
>