I believe that I'm already at the latest BIOS revision. So I'm experiencing the same problem as I've detailed above. Mainly, that the DVD fails to be connected to. Relevant output is shown below.
watchtv@teevee:~$ dmesg |grep ata5 [ 1.173566] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xc400 irq 23 [ 1.640041] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 1.648168] ata5.00: ATAPI: ATAPI iHOS104, WL0F, max UDMA/100 [ 1.664142] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 6.664377] ata5.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) [ 6.664385] ata5.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x5) [ 7.132071] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 7.156152] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 12.156032] ata5.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) [ 12.156038] ata5.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x5) [ 12.156043] ata5: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 12.156045] ata5.00: limiting speed to UDMA/100:PIO3 [ 12.624088] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 12.652217] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 17.652031] ata5.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) [ 17.652038] ata5.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x5) [ 17.652040] ata5.00: disabled [ 17.652054] ata5: hard resetting link [ 17.652056] ata5: nv: skipping hardreset on occupied port [ 18.120056] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 18.120072] ata5: EH complete watchtv@teevee:~$ I've posted the output you've requested below. watchtv@teevee:~$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date [sudo] password for watchtv: FCb 07/15/2010 watchtv@teevee:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063474 Title: System fails to connect to iHOS-104 DVD drive with nvidia MCP61 chipset. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1063474/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
