I had the same problem with Dell Vostro 200. The drive is PHLIPS DVD-ROM DROM6316. I checked the bios setting. It is "IDE". When I installed SL5.1 or Fedora 8, it got stuck at "loading ata_piix driver". Later, it cannot recognize my cdrom any more. Yonggang
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Stodola Sent: Fri 4/25/2008 2:36 PM To: rsoares Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Replacing Vista with Scientific Linux Check the bios settings. That is an SATA drive, you may need to enable legacy support to get things working. I had problems with an IDE chipset on the new G33 intel boards I got recently. The solution was to buy SATA drives (samsung actually, same brand as you), and set the bios to treat them as legacy/ide emulated. It has nothing to do with the drive itself, but rather EIDE/SATA controller chipsets. Hope that helps, Mark rsoares wrote: > Hi, > > Still having problems getting installer to get past the "cannot find > needed device" part. Some hunting with (Crtl-Alt-F4) and > (Crtl-Alt-F3) tells me that no CDrom has been found. How do I find > out what driver(s) the installer uses for the cdrom drive so it can > proceed? > I suspect they don't yet support my new drive, which is: > TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N cdrom/dvd > > Previous successful installations were on machines with these CDroms: > 1. SONY CDRWDVD CRX310EE > 2. TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652M > > The TSSTcorp manufacturer hasn't responded to my request for a Linux > driver and haven't found any on the web yet. Also I don't known how > to find it on the SL install disks. > > Thanks for your time. > > Sincerely, > R.Soares > -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
