Re: Can anyone tell why do I get this error

["Joan J. Piles" <jpiles@unizar.es>]

chindea mihai wrote:
> Hy
>
> I tried a several times to install the AMD64 Etch, and every time I 
> got this error in syslog.
>
>     kernel: ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 
> 86:0000 87:0000 88:0407
>     kernel: ata4: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
>     kernel: ata4: dev 1 cfg 49:0b00 82:0218 83:4000 84:4000 85:0218 
> 86:0000 87:4000 88:203f
>     kernel: ata4: dev 1 ATAPI, max UDMA/100
>     kernel: ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
>     kernel: ata4: dev 1 configured for UDMA/33
>     kernel: scsi3 : ata_piix
>     kernel: ata4(0): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.
>     kernel: ata4(1): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.
>
> If  I type dmesg | grep ATAPI in the Console, I get this messages:
> # dmesg | grep ATAPI
>     ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
>     ata4: dev 1 configured for UDMA/33
>     ata4(0): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored
>     ata4(1): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.
>
> So can anyone tell me, what should I do, to make it works?
>
> Cheers
It happened to me when installing on a laptop with an S-ATA CD-ROM. You 
have to pass the kernel (via grub, lilo, or whatever)

libata.atapi_enabled=1

And that's it.

Hope it works :-)