Bug 444577

Summary: Optical drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N not detected on fedora 10 ( amilo xa 2528 and 2529)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: nicolas <bepofiesta>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description nicolas 2008-04-29 10:44:55 UTC
Description of problem:

I have a fujitsu siemens amilo xa 2529-7006 laptop with an internal dvd optical
drive from LG, model : HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N

I can boot but not install fedora, the drive seems to not be found after the
driver detection process ( before the launch of  anaconda).

I managed to run fedora 8 after a long netinstall ( about 3 hours ), but when I
boot fedora, I have a bunch of errors during 5 mins ( see attached file below. )
And then I can use fedora ( my dmesg is full of this errors anyway )

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora core 8 Linux version 2.6.24.4-64.fc8
(mockbuild.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat
4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:54:46 EDT 2008

How reproducible:

Just boot fc8 disc or fc9 disc to have the same errors
  
Actual results:

I must wait over 5 minutes to reach the login screen of fedora because I have
thoses errors when I boot.
I can't see the drive with fdisk -l

Expected results:

Using my optical drive to install linux / read dvd movies etc...

Additional info:

I have also a bios bug #81 found when I start fedora

Comment 1 nicolas 2008-04-29 10:44:55 UTC
Created attachment 304099 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2008-04-29 11:04:24 UTC
The drive reporting diagnositic failure would seem indicative of a hardware
fault of some sort.

The BIOS bug is just that, nothing we can do about it (we work around it enough
already, we're just reporting that we did so).


Comment 3 nicolas 2008-04-29 11:14:13 UTC
This is a common problem with the amilo xa series.
The fujitsu amilo xa 2528 have the same problem (
http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/message/214415 )

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2008-04-29 11:36:44 UTC
Follow-up sent to linux-ata@vger

Comment 5 nicolas 2008-04-29 17:45:31 UTC
Thank you dave.

I don't know why but I can run the fedora core 6 dvd installer without problem, 
my optical drive work like a charm ... but this is fedora core 6 :-/

Comment 6 nicolas 2008-04-30 10:43:36 UTC
Updated today to kernel 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux, still no progress

Comment 7 Chuck Ebbert 2008-05-01 06:30:18 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> This is a common problem with the amilo xa series.
> The fujitsu amilo xa 2528 have the same problem (
> http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/message/214415 )

That is reported as rawhide bug 441752


Comment 8 nicolas 2008-05-21 14:12:19 UTC
Could you update this bug for fedora 9 ? the problem still persist

Comment 9 nicolas 2008-11-11 10:40:14 UTC
There is a fix for kernel 2.6.28-rc3 here :

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11659

Hope to see this fix on the next fedora release !

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:14:29 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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