François: I'm glad the link was helpful! :) I don't think we know the root cause of this bug; I know that a set of Lenovo ThinkPads suffered something similar to do with the PATA-SATA bridge---I have one of the affected laptops. The workaround for this was that they patched the firmware *on the hard-drive*. (Which also means that if you swap the hard-drive it doesn't make it very far through the boot-process)...
Not sure how to solve this one; the fact that upgrading the firmware on the optical drive has an effect gives the impression that there is something fairly wrong with the hardware itself. It's likely that this was worked around in any MS Windows drivers shipped with the machine, and that is what we'd have to do under Linux ...when the actual problem can be tracked down. Are there any kernel versions that /don't/ have this issue? I think somebody mentioned a recent Gentoo kernel that may have had some extra IDE patches. -- ata_piix problem with Intel ICH7 chipset https://launchpad.net/bugs/53754 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
