From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: The hotswap of the CD/DVD drive in my ThinkPad T42p's UltraBay slot seems to be not supported. I don't know if the vanilla kernel does support it, but on removing the drive, the system completely freezes and I have the following log entry several times: Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { } Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: error=0x00 Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { } Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: error=0x00 Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { } Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: error=0x00 Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { } Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: status error: error=0x00 Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: DMA disabled Oct 17 18:17:10 localhost kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.610 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove drive. Actual Results: Device should disappear, system should run. Expected Results: System freezes. Additional info: # dmesg | grep hdc ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1868-0x186f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-812, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
Have not installed Fedora at the moment, will reply to this bug as soon as I have time to test it out again.
This is a mass-update to all currently open Fedora Core 3 kernel bugs. Fedora Core 3 support has transitioned to the Fedora Legacy project. Due to the limited resources of this project, typically only updates for new security issues are released. As this bug isn't security related, it has been migrated to a Fedora Core 4 bug. Please upgrade to this newer release, and test if this bug is still present there. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. Thank you.
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per previous comment.