installing f8/hang at 'loading ata_piix' PROGRESS but now 'ata1.00 exception .... frozen'/FIXED

[Rick Bilonick]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 07:29 -0500, John Minson wrote:
> LiteOn dvd writer from Walmart works fine
> 
> Rick Bilonick wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:35 -0500, John Minson wrote:
> >   
> > > as  it turns out the source of all my issues was the dvd drive itself. I 
> > > installed a 9 year old dvd reader and everything works with no boot 
> > > options or bios changes . I dont  know if the dvd writer is broken or 
> > > just sucks . The drive is a SAMSUNG|SH-S202N 20X =-O
> > > 
> > > Jim Cornette wrote:
> > >     
Thanks. I will check this out - I'm tired of moving the one drive from
machine to machine! 

Rick B.