feisty installer does not detect firewire CD-ROM

[Alex Mauer]

I tried to install Ubuntu on my Dell Latitude X200. It has only firewire CD drives (both external and in the mediabase). Using either the feisty herd 2 [alternate] installer CD, or the nightly from 2007-1-15/16 (downloaded on 2007-1-16), both failed to detect the firewire CD drive as an available installation source.

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

i can confirm this.

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

btw: I checked out dmesg while this was going on

this message was scrolling through a lot (repeated over and over very frequently):

    printk(KERN_INFO "Intel ISA PCIC probe: ");
        printk("not found.\n");

(which comes from drivers/pcmcia/i82365.c)

I was on a desktop, so I don't know why it's trying to do PCMCIA...

interleaved in that, I could see the detection messages for the SBP2 device. i wasn't able to capture the exact messages from the install CD, but they are the ones that look like this:

[17180235.344000] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[08004609000d626e]
[17180235.344000] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-02:1023
[17180235.344000] scsi2 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394
[17180236.452000] ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
[17180236.452000] ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
[17180238.536000] Vendor: SONY Model: DVD RW DRU-810A Rev: 2.0d

the sbp2/ieee1394/etc drivers were all loaded, but the device wasn't showing up in /dev...

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

more notes:

1) i was wrong. the device does show up. i expected "sdc" but it's actually "scd0". the customary link to "sr0", however, is not created.

2) (weird, possibly unrelated). during the "detect" phase (which is really just a blank blue screen with a white bar at the bottom) i get some "eeeeeee" on the screen as if i had typed them at the keyboard. i can backspace them. i didn't type them and it happens every time.

3) giving the /dev/scd0 manually as the device to the installer works fine. it seems like the installer should be able to figure this out for itself so i'm making this a debian-installer bug.

[raananb (raanan)]

No way to install Ubuntu 7.04 Beta (2007/03/22) on a Sony laptop with external Firewire cd:
/dev/scd0 is not recognized.

Ubuntu 6 had no problems loading and installing from the same device.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? (9.10) Thanks in advance.

[raananb (raanan)]

Too late, the laptop in question does not exist anymore.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Marking Invalid as per last comment

[raananb (raanan)]

To make things clear, my comment did not reflect on the status of the bug, it simply stated that I cannot respond to the request in comment #5 and try with 9.10 since I do not have the appropriate hardware.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

I understand. But since you are not able to reproduce this bug on a latest Ubuntu version, and no one else is reporting it, this bug is no longer valid. If someone else can reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 9.10 then please reopen it (I mean the person who can reproduce it, not you raananb).

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

I (obviously the original submitter) still have access to the X200 I encountered the problem on. I’ll try to get around to it in the near future.