Kam Leo wrote: > 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. FWIW, I installed F7 on WMware Workstation 6 and have no issues.
