Thing that don't just work

[tsimi at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wilkinson [mailto:fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:42 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Thing that don't just work
> 
> Todd Simi wrote:
> > I have a few items that either don't work at all, or don't work out of
> > the box.
> > 
> > Doesn't work at all (as far as I've been able to do anything about;
> > 
> > ahci on my 2  SATA drives
> > 
> > Doesn't work out of the box;
> > 
> > DVD+rw drive & DVD-ROM drive
> > 	I have to set the kernel options irqpoll noapic
> > 	I get the drive confused message, and integrity of writes is very bad
> > 
> > My motherboard is an ASUS P5W DH
> > 
> > 
> > As much as I hate Windoze, it works without intervention on the DVD's,
> > I haven't tested the ahci.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> You have installed the latest updates, haven't you? There's been a lot
> changing in this area since FC5 came out.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.
> 
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Yes, I'm using the latest 2200 version.