Brian Pack wrote:
According to the July Maximum PC (page 62), There are issues with 3rd party
SATA chips on motherboards when it comes to optical drives. The Silicon Image
chip would be one of those. They did not have very good results with the
Silicon Image 3112 or 3114 controllers.
I assume you've visited this page?
http://www.plextor.com/english/support/media_712SA.htm
You may need to tweak your BIOS to get it to work.
Not that one, I have a 716SA. The 712SA is a single layer burner. The
problem is the drive works great on this system under windows. (this
particular system is dual boot) From what I 'can' find about this issue,
it seems as though no SATA optical drives will work under debian stock
kernels. I read that under ubuntu and debian SATA ATAPI is disabled but
that is all they said on what I read. And I don't know what that means
since I've never compiled my own kernel. Plus I don't know if what I was
reading still holds true, and I don't really want to start maintaining
my own kernel anyways. They were talking about 2.6.10 where I have 2.6.11.
I just find it hard to believe that I am the only one on the planet
trying to use a SATA burner under Debian and that makes me think it has
to be something I'm doing wrong. I mean Linux or Debian has got to fully
support SATA by now right? It's been around for years.
-Mike
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