--- Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:07:16 -0700 (PDT) > Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > 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. > > > > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ > http://www.melvilletheatre.com > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Is an IDE cd/dvd drive or USB one? If it an IDE/ATAPI cd/dvd drive, can you boot a live cd from it? If you can then it is not the BIOS's fault. Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
