[plug] mitsumi sr244w1 cd-rom drive (slim)

[Arie Hol]

On 21 Feb 2006 at 10:10, Ranz wrote:

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> I found out it was the way the BIOS was playing around with SATA 
drives.
> 
> Basically, there's a setting in some BIOS's that is called
> "Compatibility Mode" which tricks the OS to thinking that it has IDE
> drives. I disabled this (by putting it into "Enhanced" mode) and it 
then was able to recognise the CDROM.
> 

I think that you will find that the "Compatibilty mode" is there to allow 
a SATA enabled BIOS to play nicely with parallel IDE devices.


> I guess the reason for this was probably that Debian is too smart for 
the
> "trick" however, the CDROM wasn't able to mount as a primary IDE drive -

> as it was being overwritten by the BIOS trickery.
> 
> Hope this will help others.

Regards Arie
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