[ILUG] SATA DVD+-RW

[Belgarath]

On Friday 15 June 2007 12:21:44 Paschal Nee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Possibly a slightly less complex question than Brendan's but anyway.
>
> I have a PowerEdge 830 for which I bought one of these
> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=326440
>
> Looks like there's good support in Linux for DVD writing in general
> with dvdtools.  Unfortunately I'm not even getting that far.  I've
> hooked it up, its getting power but the BIOS does not see it.  In the
> BIOS setup screen if I set SATA0 or SATA1 to "auto detect" a device it
> simply says "unknown device" and reverts to "off" on next boot.
> "unknown device" is the same answer I get if there is nothing plugged
> into  the port.
>
> The PowerEdge has a PCI raid card into which there is are two SATA
> disks connected.  There is also a regular PATA CD/DVD combo.  There
> are no other SATA devices connected to the motherboard.
>
> So am I missing something obvious here?  What's the significance of
> the SATA0 port (it's blue on both the PCI raid card & the
> motherboard)?  I don't have another SATA system I can plug this into
> to see if it works there.
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Paschal.
 
Try setting this up in bios as CD-ROM driver and turn autodetecion off.

Belgarath