Description of problem: Certain USB DVD-units won't be recognized while loading anaconda from the same DVD-unit. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Tested with TSSCorp (Samsung) External DVD RW (2 different models). BIOS recognizes drive and boots the install DVD. At startup while probing it doesn't recognize the drive and of course won't find any installation source. If I connect a USB-device like a USB-drive it starts the usb-storage sub-system and finds the DVD-drive. It seems the recognition code for external USB DVD-drives doesn't find all possible units. Additional info: I've seen this with RHEL-4, RHEL-5 and even fedora, though I haven't tried Fedora 10.
Which stage of anaconda are you in when the device is not detected? Have you gotten into the graphical stage2? Is this reproduceable with F10?
(In reply to comment #1) > Which stage of anaconda are you in when the device is not detected? Have you > gotten into the graphical stage2? Is this reproduceable with F10? I will have to try with F10 but I'll have to do that later this week. It's between pressing return in isolinux (linux text) and loading the installation process. The process starts but can't find any USB-devices (the only device connected when it doesn't work is the DVD).
Sorry for the delay! Yes, it seems to work in F10. So, it's an older bug then... Thanks anyway. Rickard
Good to know this will be fixed in the next major release of RHEL, then. Thanks for testing.