Comment 49 for bug 220957

Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> One thing I'd be interested in is if people could test booting with
> the "all_generic_ide" boot option.

Booting with all_generic_ide=1 as a boot option does not change things.
I inserted a blank CD-R into the Pioneer drive and while the green LED
lights up all the time, I do not get any response about a blank medium
found in the drive. Please see my report dated 25 Jul 08 at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/228624/comments/48

FYI, I have cut and pasted from dmesg what I think might be relevant,
after inserting a blank CD:

--- snip ----
[ 18.635185] ata2.00: ATAPI: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD-165H, CH0J, max UDMA/44
[ 18.635215] ata2.01: ATAPI: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110, 1.22, max UDMA/66
[ 18.635231] ata2.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
[ 18.635234] ata2.01: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
[ 18.706813] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 18.798943] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 18.888823] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 18.970810] ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33
--- snip ----
[ 18.972043] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITEON DVD-ROM LTD-165H CH0J
PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 18.978903] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110 1.22
PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
--- snip ----
[ 19.001417] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
--- snip ----
[ 19.001682] sda:<4>Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
--- snip ----
[ 19.153587] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 19.153592] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 19.153640] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 19.184639] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2
cdda tray
[ 19.184718] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
--- snip ----

> It may be a possible workaround for some at the moment. (I saw in a
> previous comment Andy had tried this unsuccessfully, but I'd like to
> get feedback from others as well) If you can also comment on the
> version of the kernel you are running that would be great too. You
> can get this by doing 'cat /proc/version_signature'

Ubuntu 2.6.24-19.36-generic

> Next, I'd like to know if anyone has had the chance to confirm this
> is still an issue with the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release.
> We'll want to make sure we have this fix resolved in the upcoming
> release first and then backport any necessary patches to Hardy if
> possible. You can get the latest Alpha release of Intrepid (Alpha 3
> at the time of this posting) from http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . It
> would be great if someone would be willing to test. If the issue
> still exists under Intrepid please attach an updated full dmesg
> output after you've inserted a blank CD.

Do I need to run the second kernel in a VirtualBox VM? I have experience
building from Ibex source package in prevu for applications, and running
them, but never building a new kernel, let alone run it. If given a link
on how to do it, I am willing to try, because I want to see the back of
this bug.

Many thanks for your attention.

Chandra