From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: After upgrading to kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 from kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3, I'm periodically seeing messages about my CD drive (note, the drive is just idle when these occur): Apr 14 16:26:34 mmouse kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0x9800-0x9807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio Apr 14 16:26:34 mmouse kernel: hde: CD-RW BCE5224IM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Apr 14 16:26:36 mmouse kernel: hde: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Apr 14 16:27:09 mmouse fstab-sync[4838]: added mount point /media/cdrecorder for /dev/hde Apr 14 16:30:51 mmouse kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) Apr 14 16:58:28 mmouse kernel: hde: packet command error: status=0xd0 { Busy } Apr 14 17:00:34 mmouse kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) Apr 14 17:05:18 mmouse kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) Apr 14 17:09:56 mmouse kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) The drive appears to function normally. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 2. Wait about 15 minutes 3. Messages occur Actual Results: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) Expected Results: No spurious messages Additional info: lspci is reporting: 00:0c.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20262 (Fast Trak66/Ultra66) (rev 01) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/ C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) I believe the drive reporting the problem is on 00:0c.0.
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.
I updated the kernel to 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3, and I am no longer seeing this message.