Re: install/39999: SATA and USB CD-ROM drives not supported

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/39999; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/39999: SATA and USB CD-ROM drives not supported
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:34:30 +0100

 On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:40:01PM +0000, 
randolf+netbsd.org%inter-corporate.com@localhost wrote:
 > >Environment:
 > Not applicable
 > >Description:
 > NetBSD 4.0.1 can't be installed from CD when the system has a SATA CD-ROM 
 > drive; only IDE CD-ROM drives are supported, but new server motherboards 
 > from Intel don't include IDE controllers anymore -- they typically have 8 
 > SATA ports instead.
 > 
 > I also tried using a CD-ROM drive that is mounted in an external USB 
 > chassis, but this also didn't work.
 > 
 > The problem is that dmesg doesn't report any CD devices with either SATA or 
 > USB CD-ROM drives, yet the installation CD can be booted from either one of 
 > these drives successfully.
 > 
 > All other functions of sysinst (e.g., formatting the AHCI-mode SATA hard 
 > drives) functions correctly.
 
 
 the AHCI-mode SATA cdrom drive should be supported in netbsd-4; can you try
 an iso from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/ and see
 if it works for you ?
 As for the USB CD drive, I don't know why it was not found. the boot messages
 would help here.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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