cd writer missing after F7 upgrade

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 05:47:19 UTC 2007


On 6/1/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/07, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:07:16 -0700 (PDT)
> > Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> 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.




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