I have a very similar problem with Ubuntu 8.10. I have installed it using a USB flash drive, so I have not noticed it during installation. Now my system does not see a CD drive at all. My setup is similar - CD (configured as slave) as the only PATA device, HDD is a SATA device.
There seems to be a problem with device detection in the kernel. The relevant part of dmesg seems to be: ata5: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xff00 irq 14 ata6: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xff08 irq 15 ata5.01: NODEV after polling detection In the attachment I have provided dmesg output from 8.04 run from USB drive and from 8.10 (installed system) - on the same hardware. ** Attachment added: "dmesg output 8.04 and 8.10" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19577999/dmesg-8.04-8.10.txt -- 8.10 Alternate and LiveCD fails to mount CDROM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293615 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
