Comment 2 for bug 55232
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| tari (taricorp) wrote Update: CD detection failed on install. | #2 |
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I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, this actually appears to be a limitation of the kernel. I've found that it will only detect devices up to hdh (ata4,slave), and on my board, the PATA is on ata5. The SATA hard drive is mounted as hda, and the other three free SATA ports would be hdc,hde,and hdg. Every Linux distro I've tried has issues detecting this, but FreeBSD works fine. I'm going to buy a SATA to PATA adapter, attach it to ata2, and see if that allows it to detect the CD, because I don't like BSD. Otherwise, a USB boot allowed me to at least get a working system, but still no CD.
Doug: moving your DVD drive to one of the first four ports might fix the problem, if it isn't already.