On 6/1/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> 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. [snip]
It appears that F7 does not like Workstation 5.5.4 emulated SCSI drive. F7 cannot detect the drive.
