Showstopper - 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives (fwd)

[Frank]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> Frank wrote:
>> I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response.
>> 
>> I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall 
>> could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install.  I had to mount the CD in 
>> another machine and do a NFS install.
>
> SATA optical drives are not supported, neither is your brand new gaming sound 
> card. This is far from being a show stopper. Please consult the hardware 
> notes in the future before complaining on the lists.

The Hardware Notes do not mention SATA at all except for RAID controllers. 
I figured if the SATA hard drives are supported the DVD drives would be 
also since the notes did not say that they were not.

Is there a timeframe for SATA CD and DVD support?
--
Frank