[CentOS] SATA DVD Burner / AHCI / CentOS 4.7 (kernel: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL)

Mon Jul 27 14:33:57 UTC 2009
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:39:10 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Robert Heller wrote:
> > OK, it seems that the kernel I have (stock CentOS 4.7: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL i686)
> > seems to gronk the nVideo SATA controller in AHCI mode.  It is NOT able
> > to deal with the SATA DVD Burner I have.  It is a "Sony Optiarc DVD
> > Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model AD-7241S-0B LightScribe
> > Support".  Is there some special magic I need to do?  Here is the
> > relevant bit from the boot up (SATA ports 2-6 are empty at present):
> 
> You could try booting with the boot command line option:
> 
>   pci=nomsi
> 
> and see if that helps

No effect. Same 'Failed to IDENTIFY' messages.

> 
> James Pearson
> 
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