Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED)

[Rod <Rod@Rods.id.au>]

 On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:56 +1100, Paul Colquhoun 
 <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote:
>> Paul Colquhoun wrote:
>> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
>> >> 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?
>> >
>> > Actually I had tried 4 boot media *other* *than* the Gentoo 
>> livecd, for
>> > the simple reason that I thought they had stopped making them!
>> >
>> > Stupid me.
>> >
>> > Looking at the Gentoo download page, they have an AMD64 minimal 
>> install
>> > CD image created just days ago.
>> >
>> > The Gentoo livecd works!  I should have looked there first and 
>> saved
>> > myself a lot of trouble (and 4 blank CDs!).
>>
>> Could it be something in the BIOS maybe?  My rig that I built last 
>> year
>> has a SATA CD/DVD burner and it boots Gentoo CDs, Knoppix, 
>> systemrescue
>> and another that I can't recall.  Knotix (?) or something.  It 
>> should
>> work.  You may want to try systemrescue if you haven't already.  I'd
>> figure this out before something happens and you have to boot 
>> something
>> to fix it.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>
>
> It may be something in the BIOS, but I didn't change anything between 
> the
> other livecds NOT working, and the Gentoo one working, so the Gentoo 
> livecd
> seems to have done something different.

 I have been running SATA-DVD drive (ok not CD) for a few years with no 
 problems with reading or writing from either Gentoo-Linux or Windoze