Re: serial ata hd and ide dvd?

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <herrsergio@gmail.com>]

2005/7/30, Eric Persson <eric@persson.tm>:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed debian testing on a dell inspiron 9300 laptop and most
> of the hardware now works, however, the dvdburner does not work yet. It
> isnt even recognized in the dmesg output. It seems that the dvdburner is
> on the ide interface while the harddrive is connected to the new
> satainterface.

Hi,

which version of Debian has you installed, because Ive tried with
Etch, a daily build from this week, and it is unable to detect the cd
rom unit. I tried with an Ubuntu live cd and it works fine. What can
be wrong?

Did you used some special boot parameters ?

Thanks,
Sergio