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From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:28:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322267330.1498810.1.camel@stretch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3002160.HuQVx7n6jd@tux>

On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and
> needs a 
> kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1
> 
> Does anybody know of a Live CD that will work with a SATA CD drive? 

AFAIK most (all) modern computers that have CDROM drives are SATA, at
least the one i bought a couple of years ago does.. so I'm wondering if
your problem is not that you have a SATA CDROM but something else.

Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd?





  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-26  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-26  0:01 [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive Paul Colquhoun
2011-11-26  0:28 ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
2011-11-26  1:12   ` [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED) Paul Colquhoun
2011-11-26  5:29     ` Dale
2011-11-26 21:36       ` Paul Colquhoun
2011-11-27  2:14         ` Rod
2011-11-26 11:57   ` [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive James Broadhead

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