Re: Installing Etch on an Intel DG965WH Board
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:22:19PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:46:23 +0200
> Peter.Robinson@t-online.de (Peter Robinson) wrote:
>
> > > > > > >I bought a new computer with the following components:
> > > > > > >Intel Desktop Board DG965WH
> > > > > > >Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40 GHz (6600)
> > > > > > >ASUS DVD Recorder/DVD optical drive
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It is connected as SATA. There is no entry in /dev/ that seems
> > > > promising (/dev/scd0 is not present). It seems funny that the
> > > > installer CD is able to get that far but then is no longer able to
> > > > read itself...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What MODEL is the DVD drive? - Linux in general should not have
> > > trouble with DVD drives READ or RW. The Intel MB is also one of THE
> > > most compatible boards. I run basically the same board with an Intel
> > > Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHZ and an LG DVD player.
> >
> > Thanks. I have a DRW-1814BLT from ASUS, which is a SATA connection.
> > It is a DVD reader/recorder.
> >
> > For what it's worth I have just tried to install from the first CD of
> > the Testing dist (assembled by Jigdo), although I now got a rather
> > long list of CDROM drivers, none of them did the trick.
>
>
> From a quick Google search I found some Linuxers running the
> drive...so it would seem selecting the proper SATA setup in the Bios is
> the key. Did your MB come setup in the computer?
>
>
Yeah, I actually googled first before deciding to buy these components. I bought the components from a company here that assembled the parts, "tested everything with Windows XP", and then thankfully were nice enough to remove that software from my computer. So for better or worse I take it that the hardware works and that there is a setup problem. As I say, I tried the three options to set up SATA, being *IDE mode - no AHCI, no RAID, * SATA mode (sometimes called AHCI mode) - AHCI enabled, no RAID and * RAID mode - AHCI enabled, RAID enabled.
There didnt appear to be much else to do in the BIOS settings, but I am no big expert.
thanks Peter
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