Andrew Porter said... > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:20 -0300, Arlindo Sierra Neto wrote: > > > Hi! > > I'm Trying to install Debian Testing on my Acer Travelmate 4654. > > The problem is that the CDROM is connected on the SATA controller and de > > HD is connected on the PATA controller. > > The Debian-Installer don't recognize my cdrom. Even if I load first of > > all ata_piix. It only finds my hard drive. > > It has a ICH6 chipset. > > > > Does anyone could help me? Hi Andrew, Could you please explain your solution more fully please. I've added notes to indicate more precisely what I don't understand. > I got around this by installing with the SATA in "compatible" mode - How do you do this?
On my PC (a Dell Dimension 8400) its an option in the Bios.
> this made it appear as a PATA device. > Once installed and a new kernel setup Does this mean that you installed using 2.6.8 then added, say, 2.6.12?
I think I actually installed a 2.4 kernel in the end.
> I changed it back What did you change back?
The Bios setting - changed it back to SATA mode
> without any problems (remembering to change root from hda to sda). In the grub menu?
Indeed - as the installation was done on /dev/hda but when using the HD as SATA it is /dev/sda
My diagnosis of the problem - and I may be way off on this but went no further than getting it working - was that when loading the SATA drivers for some reason the IDE cdrom driver no longer worked/could find the cd. This doesn't seem to be a problem with 2.6.12 (stock debian kernel).
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