3rd ide master: some headway

[Les Gray]

On Saturday 04 August 2007 10:45:21 James Takac wrote:
> On Saturday 04 August 2007 02:38:05 Les Gray wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 August 2007 01:50:17 James Takac wrote:
> > > Tis my understanding that its a sata dvd drive. Going by your list here
> > > then maybe the drive hasn't been detected? No sr0, only sda, sda1,
> > > sda2, sda3, sda4, sda5. No hda, hdb, etc
> > >
> > > Been doin a lil more research based on a few things  you mentioned.
> > > What I found may be of some help in figuring things out @
> > >
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/1169
> > >96
> > >
> > > The basic synopsis seems to be this is some form of debian bug
> > >
> > > James
> >

Hi James,

I had a look through your logs. I don't think your issue is related to the bug 
you pointed out, because your HDD is being seen as a SATA/SCSI device -

[   19.188000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      Hitachi HTS54161 SBDO 
PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   19.196000] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)

and that bug is about SATA disks incorrectly coming under the control of the 
old IDE/PATA driver after a kernel update.

Trouble is, your DVD drive doesn't seem to be getting seen at all. There's no 
mention of anything which would be related to it in any of the info you 
provided.

Which could mean a few things -

1. These might seem obvious, but is the drive at least still getting power? 
Can you open and close the tray? Is it still physically connected to the 
motherboard?

2. Do you have any USB storage devices (flash, external HDD, card reader etc.) 
plugged in when you power up? If so, try unplugging them before turning your 
machine on, and see if your DVD works (although I would expect some message 
about a conflict if this was the case).

3. A possible bug or incompatibility in libata (the new storage driver) which 
affects your type of machine (based on Intel ICH8, which is still new). If 
so, and it's been fixed in the meantime, you might need to run a custom 
kernel to get around it, at least until the release of Gutsy.

Some more info (which I should have asked for before) - what's the exact make 
and model of both the laptop and the DVD drive?

Cheers,
Les