sata cdrw/dvdrom installation
So my ide cdrom drive died this morning, it was old and had been making weird noises for a while. I replaced it with a sata cdrw/dvdrom combo drive. My system boots fine but the cdrom no longer works in suse. I looked in the yast2 cdrom section and it doesn't see any drives. I also looked in the Hardware Information section but I didn't see anything that looked like a sata cdrom. The bios see's the drive and I can boot from it although the suse installation fails after it loads the kernel (even though it loads the sata_sil and scsi_mod modules). In winxp the cdrom works fine so I know that it is plugged in all the way and has power. I've looked through dmesg and I see four scsi devices (formerly there were only three) so the kernel seems to be seeing the drive. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Abe
Bit of a self update here. I've tried booting off the instalation cd a few times and looking at the messages on alt-f3. The drive is detected as scsi0 but when the scsi devices are assigned sdx names, the cdrom drive is left unassigned. Here is a map of the drive layout: sata1 cdrw/dvdrom sata2 36Gb Hd winxp sata3 80Gb Hd storage sata4 80Gb Hd suse I tried booting off the install cd and passing cdrom=/dev/sda and cdrom=/dev/sdd and even cdrom=/dev/scsi0 but in all cases, the installer tells me it can't find the installation media after it loads the kernel from the cdrom. Thats what I know. It's not much. Thanks for your help. Abe Abram B Olson wrote:
So my ide cdrom drive died this morning, it was old and had been making weird noises for a while. I replaced it with a sata cdrw/dvdrom combo drive. My system boots fine but the cdrom no longer works in suse. I looked in the yast2 cdrom section and it doesn't see any drives. I also looked in the Hardware Information section but I didn't see anything that looked like a sata cdrom.
The bios see's the drive and I can boot from it although the suse installation fails after it loads the kernel (even though it loads the sata_sil and scsi_mod modules). In winxp the cdrom works fine so I know that it is plugged in all the way and has power.
I've looked through dmesg and I see four scsi devices (formerly there were only three) so the kernel seems to be seeing the drive.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Abe
Well, after doing some research it looks like libata doesn't support sata cdroms in kernel revisions prior to 2.6.11 so I guess I'll be updating to suse 9.3 when it comes out. Abe Abram B Olson wrote:
Bit of a self update here. I've tried booting off the instalation cd a few times and looking at the messages on alt-f3. The drive is detected as scsi0 but when the scsi devices are assigned sdx names, the cdrom drive is left unassigned. Here is a map of the drive layout:
sata1 cdrw/dvdrom sata2 36Gb Hd winxp sata3 80Gb Hd storage sata4 80Gb Hd suse
I tried booting off the install cd and passing cdrom=/dev/sda and cdrom=/dev/sdd and even cdrom=/dev/scsi0 but in all cases, the installer tells me it can't find the installation media after it loads the kernel from the cdrom.
Thats what I know. It's not much. Thanks for your help.
Abe Abram B Olson wrote:
So my ide cdrom drive died this morning, it was old and had been making weird noises for a while. I replaced it with a sata cdrw/dvdrom combo drive. My system boots fine but the cdrom no longer works in suse. I looked in the yast2 cdrom section and it doesn't see any drives. I also looked in the Hardware Information section but I didn't see anything that looked like a sata cdrom.
The bios see's the drive and I can boot from it although the suse installation fails after it loads the kernel (even though it loads the sata_sil and scsi_mod modules). In winxp the cdrom works fine so I know that it is plugged in all the way and has power.
I've looked through dmesg and I see four scsi devices (formerly there were only three) so the kernel seems to be seeing the drive.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Abe
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