On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 05:30:07PM -0500, D Wyatt wrote:
> The mobo in my P4 pc died last week so my P4 became a Core2 Duo.
>
> The new mobo only has one PATA channel but the PC has 3 IDE drives.
> I installed an ATA133 controller card (VIA vt6410) and connected
> it to the IDE dvd-burner. The two IDE HD's are connected to the
> single IDE channel on the mobo.
>
> This is a multi-boot pc with fc7, fc11 and WinXP, and I could
> still boot into fc11 and XP after the hardware replacement.
>
> When I boot into XP, the DVD burner attached to the VIA
> controller is fully functional.
>
> But when booted into fc11, the dvd drive can't be seen. The
> pata_via driver seems to be loaded and entries in dmesg suggest
> that the VIA controller is recognized. Device Manager in KDE
> shows:
>
> PCI Bridge {82801 PCI Bridge - Intel}
> RAID Controller {VT6410 ATA133 - VIA Technologies}
> SCSI Host Adapter
> SCSI Host Adapter
Probably not the kind of help you wanted, but SATA DVD drives
can be had (from places like new egg, and others) for under thirty bucks.
just as a more or less random example, here's one for twenty bucks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118030
and no, I don't work for newegg.
>
> lspci lists the controller:
>
> 04:01.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133
> RAID controller (rev 06)
>
> I've upgraded from fc11 to fc12 (32-bit) and the kernel is now
> 2.6.32.11-99.fc11.686. The DVD burner remains invisible.
>
> Can anyone suggest a path to getting the DVD burner working in
> Fedora with this controller card?
>
>
> Regards and thanks in advance for any help you can offer
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