Using the compatibility mode for the SATA controller also means less
performance when accesing the harddrive or transferring data.
Im installing many of 755s these days with Marios bootdisk
(unattended-gui) and I dont have to switch to compatibility mode nor do I
get the BSOD.
Sebastian
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen
Kojoukhine
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:14 PM
Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Dell Vostro 400 not supported
Does your SATA controller support multiple modes of operation? For example,
the Optiplex 755s must be tweaked in the BIOS before we run unattended on
them otherwise they BSOD on us during early bluescreen setup. SATA
controllers often have a compatibility mode that they can be switched to,
usually for the sake of OS installation, and then switched back.
Unfortunately I dont have access to any Vostros, but maybe this will put
you in the right direction.
Steve
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris
Lechner
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:24 AM
To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Unattended] Dell Vostro 400 not supported
Hi and thanks for your great work !
I've some hardware problems with my new Dell Vostro 400 :
* The SATA hard drive is not auto-recognized. If I modprobe ata_piix,
it recognize it, but complains non stop "failed to IDENTIFY" and other ata2
exceptions
* The ethernet card seems to be ok, everything is ok in ifconfig, but
nothing seems to go on wire
* I can't type too fast on my usb keyboard if i don't want Linux to
miss some chars...
As i've no network, no hard drive and no usb drives, i can't offer you any
complete log. But if you want some specific information, i'll try to copy
it.
I've tried to build the tftpboot cvs tree in order to change kernel version,
but i obtain the same symptoms when booting.
The computer is working fine when I boot system rescue cd
http://www.sysresccd.org/
Do you have any advice ? If you don't, can you tell me if it is possible to
adapt /etc/master script to be run from a sysrescd ? I've already tried, but
after the dosemu copy and reboot, the install has never started. The files
seems to have been copied, so I don't know what's the matter.
Friendly,
Boris
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