IDE controller card problem

D Wyatt dwyatt at sunflower.com
Wed May 5 22:30:07 UTC 2010


The mobo in my P4 pc died last week so my P4 became a Core2 Duo.

The new mobo only has one PATA channel but the PC has 3 IDE drives.
I installed an ATA133 controller card (VIA vt6410) and connected
it to the IDE dvd-burner.  The two IDE HD's are connected to the
single IDE channel on the mobo.

This is a multi-boot pc with fc7, fc11 and WinXP, and I could
still boot into fc11 and XP after the hardware replacement.

When I boot into XP, the DVD burner attached to the VIA
controller is fully functional.

But when booted into fc11, the dvd drive can't be seen.  The
pata_via driver seems to be loaded and entries in dmesg suggest
that the VIA controller is recognized.  Device Manager in KDE
shows:

    PCI Bridge                {82801 PCI Bridge - Intel}
      RAID Controller         {VT6410 ATA133 - VIA Technologies}
        SCSI Host Adapter
        SCSI Host Adapter

lspci lists the controller:

  04:01.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133
         RAID controller (rev 06)

I've upgraded from fc11 to fc12 (32-bit) and the kernel is now
2.6.32.11-99.fc11.686.  The DVD burner remains invisible.

Can anyone suggest a path to getting the DVD burner working in
Fedora with this controller card?


Regards and thanks in advance for any help you can offer


More information about the users mailing list