On 6/1/07, 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.
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.
