From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux 2.6.9-1.678_FC3; X11; i686; en_US, de) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: After warm boot, CDROM/DVDROM is not recognized. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.678_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot FC3 2. reboot 3. Actual Results: No /dev/hdb exists. Expected Results: /dev/hdb should exist. Additional info: Proper dmesg output: Nov 18 21:11:58 golulu kernel: hdb: PIONEER DVD RW DVR-106D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Nov 18 21:12:00 golulu kernel: hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33) Erroneous dmesg output: Nov 18 19:53:36 golulu kernel: hdb: probing with STATUS(0x40) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x58) Error never occured with vanilla 2.6.9 kernel. Windows has no problems detecting the device. FC3 detects properly after cold start (turning the computer off - just RESET doesn't work).
Created attachment 107151 [details] dmesg output (when DVDROM was properly detected)
Problem appears to be BIOS/initialization related. Sorry for any inconvenience.