Please ignore my previous message: it does not work as it should with kernel 2.6.20-16 either.
In fact, it now takes 45 minutes to boot and sometimes, there are drive icons missing on the desktop. Thus I followed the suggestion of bug# 103410 and added the word 'irqpoll' to the bootoptions of the kernel. Now it boots in few minutes, but the syslog is filled again repeatedly with messages. Here is a sample: [quote] 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507721] hdc: drive not ready for command 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507754] hdc: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error } 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507762] hdc: status error: error=0x7f { IllegalLengthIndication EndOfMedia AbortedCommand MediaChangeRequested LastFailedSense=0x07 } 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507767] ide: failed opcode was: unknown 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507770] hdc: drive not ready for command 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507792] hdc: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error } 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507799] hdc: status error: error=0x7f { IllegalLengthIndication EndOfMedia AbortedCommand MediaChangeRequested LastFailedSense=0x07 } 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507804] ide: failed opcode was: unknown 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507807] hdc: drive not ready for command 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507851] hdc: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error } 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507859] hdc: status error: error=0x7f { IllegalLengthIndication EndOfMedia AbortedCommand MediaChangeRequested LastFailedSense=0x07 } 05/26/2007 10:07:15 PM UbuntuDesktop kernel [ 2444.507864] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [/quote] hdc is an old combo: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R1002 Please, let me know if you need more information. -- kernel.log syslog filling up with repeated ata2 and cdrom messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95105 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs