[Hardy Alpha 6] no cd-rom/dvd drive after install

[Fungyo]

After installing Kubuntu Hardy Alpha 6 (installed fine) i can no longer access the cd/dvd drive. Kinfocenter shows "No information available about cd-rom info."
I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 w/ Dual CPU T2310, 120g hdd, 1gb ram

[Bloop (kennethalexander)]

I experience the same behavior with Ubuntu 7.10 and SUSE 10.3 and Mandriva 8 on my "Lenovo 3000 N200 0687-2DU". It seems that the Newest Linux kernels are having problems with SATA interfaces in relation to CDROM and DVDROM drives {I beleive the DVDrom drives on these Lenovo machines are connected to the SATA interface along with the harddrive unit}. The Ubuntu live disk works great as do the install routines on all distros, the drive only becomes disabled after the complete install. If you are running a dual boot machine check to see if your Windows access to the cdrom drive is also disabled after the Linux install.

I have tried , bois updates on the machine, and even tried new installs from external DVDrom drives to no avail.

Alas.

[Fungyo (sites07)]

I have a pioneer sata dvd burner with my pc, running off an asus m2n-sli motherboard and everything is working fine with 7.10 and so far 8.04 beta1.
Appears to be working at least for some sata optical drives.