My sister in-law gave me the complete system (P4 2.8Gig, 160G PATA, DVD-writer and a CD-writer, dual-head Nvidia card , she was having problems with the systems just rebooting while it was being used. I moved my Linux HD from my 933Mhz system to this new system. I changed some BIOS setting and so far have not had any issues. I was able to acquire two SATA drives and wanted to try out the RAID ... that is when I went down this rat hole. I would still like to use the SATA drives .. but how. Alan: Are you suggesting a new SATA PCI controller would not fix the problem even if I disable the one on the MB? Information about the Mb can be found at http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/index.htm. I'm note sure what additional information you need but I would be glad to try anything. If I was to lose my current PATA drive I would have not way to reinstall Linux - Yuk! Thank you, Jamie On 8/19/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:49:11 -0600 > "Jamie Bohr" <jamiebohr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was give a system with a D875PBZ Intel MB in it, it is a 2.8G system. > > > > I am trying to get Fedora on it but either get a kernel panic or > > failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I have googled and found a > > few ides, none have helped. > > The shipped FC7 kernel has this problem with a few devices whose firmware > turned out to be very fussy about things or only got polled setxfer > correct. A new controller isn't likely to be different. Without more > details on the actual device it fails to probe it is hard to guess beyond > that > -- Jamie Bohr
