Plextor DVDRW not recognized during install

[Coleman Kane]

On 12/12/06, Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:12:37PM -0500, Josh Abbe wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > First of all, I hope I am doing this (sending a mass email)
> correctly.  I
> > didn't see any instructions or guidelines, so here goes:
> >
> > I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 (Amd64).  I am a complete newbie, but
> I
> > thought I would be able to do it following the FreeBSD Hand Book.  Well,
> > everything looked like it was going fine.  I chose a language/country,
> set
> > the auto configuration for the HDD partitions, and eventually got to the
> > screen that asked me to choose which media to install from.  I chose
> > CD/DVD.  Then, it gave me an error saying that the system could not
> detect
> > my CD drive.  Weird...since it seemed to know the drive was there to get
> me
> > to that point.
> >
> > Right now, installing over FTP is not an option.  I posted my problem in
> a
> > FreeBSD forum, but no one seemed to have any solutions other than to
> send an
> > email to the DL (as I am doing now).
> >
> > The drive I am trying to install off of is the (SATA) Plextor DVDRW (PX
> -
> > 716A/SW)
> > I have an ASUS A8N32-SLI mobo, an 80 Gb WD SATA HDD (where FreeBSD will
> go),
> > a 150 Gb WD Raptor X (with Win XP currently installed), an AMD FX-60
> > dual-core proc (2.6Ghz), a GeForce 7900 GTX, 2GB Corsair memory, Sound
> > Blaster X-Fi, etc...  I cant think of any more parts that would make a
> > difference.
>
> ATAPI SATA devices are not yet supported, sorry.  You'll need to get a
> PATA drive for now.
>
> -- Brooks
>
>
>
Could he perhaps use a SATA-PATA bridge/converter thing? Would it work then,
after being plugged into a PATA port?

--
Coleman Kane