From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: Writing DVDs with the LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S DVD-writer fails. K3B stalls in the phase 'Preparing write process...' and gives up after a minute. /var/log/messages says: Sep 14 16:51:31 pcbastiaan kernel: hdd: DMA timeout retry Sep 14 16:51:31 pcbastiaan kernel: hdd: timeout waiting for DMA Sep 14 16:51:36 pcbastiaan kernel: hdd: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Sep 14 16:51:36 pcbastiaan kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Sep 14 16:51:36 pcbastiaan kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command Sep 14 16:51:36 pcbastiaan kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete Or after disabling DMA with hdparm -d0 Sep 14 17:01:13 pcbastiaan kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Sep 14 17:01:13 pcbastiaan kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Sep 14 17:01:13 pcbastiaan kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S DVD-writer 2. try to write a DVD (with K3B) Actual Results: DVD burning fails to start Expected Results: DVD burning should have completed Additional info:
Mass update to all FC4 bugs: An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already. Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary. Thanks.
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. 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.