Greetings, After struggling for months to get my HP DVD/CD ROM to work in Ubuntu Studio, I decided I would ask the developers if they want me to run any tests so they can make it work in future releases. This way I might get to contribute something back to the project as well as get my own system working again. This HD DVD Writer 840d worked flawlessly before upgrading from 8.04 to 9.10. It worked fine to run the upgrade from within 8.04, and it worked fine to do a clean 10.04 install. There is no problem booting from it, but it becomes undetectable when I boot from the hard drive. I have also tested the optical drive while running generic Ubuntu 9.10 from a flash drive, and it seemed to work, though I didn't try burning any media. Since it ran with generic Ubuntu, I thought it might be an Ubuntu Studio-specific problem, and perhaps the developers should know about it. I did file a bug report in Launchpad against 9.10, but it didn't go anywhere; I also noticed a similar bug report and forum post for earlier versions, also unresolved. This may be a persistent problem in post-Hardy Ubuntu Studio. Please let me know if there are any tests you want me to run. If not, I'll shop around for a new drive and/or distro, but I would _really_ like to see Ubuntu Studio work out of the box with common IDE optical drives, and hope I can help you make that happen. If this is happening to a lot of users with similar hardware, I fear it could negatively impact the adoption of Ubuntu Studio. Please let me know what other hardware information you need, and how to find it. I'll probably have to run some reports, since I no longer have paper documentation. If there is a more appropriate venue for this issue, please say so. I tried Launchpad, Ubuntu-studio-users-list, linux-audio-users-list, and Ubuntu forums so far, without much success. Sincerely, Paul DeShaw