failed to set xfermode ...

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:49:11 -0600
"Jamie Bohr" <jamiebohr at gmail.com> 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