SATA CD/DVD drive not recognized in Gutsy

[Jack Bowling]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:51:33AM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote:
> I have an HP Pavillion m8011N loaded up with Gutsy. The system sees the
> SATA hard drive fine but not the CD/DVD drive hanging off the controller. A
> long Google search brought up mentions of others with the same predicament
> but little in the way of solutions. Anybody run into this? I have a feeling
> it is the crippled BIOS that HP puts into these machines. The CD/DVD drive
> is not seen by the BIOS either. I tried loading the ide_cd module to no
> effect.
>

Just a note to say that this was one giant PEBKAC. When replacing RAM
modules the other day, I had inadvertently knocked the SATA cable from the CD
off the motherboard header. All fine now. I blame it on a head cold I am
just now getting over. Sorry for the noise.

Jack