cdrom on ide secondary not found

[yeti]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20

As of April 10, 2007, status of bug earlier defined as 85578:
(SATA primary and IDE secondary drives on Intel ICH5 hardware)

7.04 with 2.6.20-14 kernel and latest synaptic updates is much improved over my earlier complaints.

The good news is:
1 I was able to load LiveCD, install to SATA primary and do on-line updating.
2 My secondary IDE master hard drive is now accessible and readable. I haven't tried executing installed distros there yet.
3. Your newer 8187 wifi module is working fine as far as I can tell.
4. Newest versions of Firefox and OpenOffice are great.
5. No problem with many programs loaded simultaneously;
    System very responsive.

The remaining not-so-good news is:
1 Even though I have 512k of ram with 32k given to video, my Live cd install was iffy because free mem was only about 6k. Not enough for Firefox and console together, for example.
2. My secondary IDE slave cdrw is *not* accessible, even though /etc/fstab expects it at /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom (or cdrom0).
There is no /dev/scd0 entry.
3. Boot-up is extremely slow, 3+ minutes, but seems much longer.
The boot time hang-up is probably the result of three unsuccessful tries at reading ide drive parameters.

Hoping you will help me reclaim my ide cdrw and speed up booting.

yeti

[yeti (utu)]

addendum:

I think bugs 95105 and 95407 have similar symptoms to what I observe.

yeti

[yeti (utu)]

Bug 103780 is probably also related.

Bug 103410 probably definitively nails this problem down.

For the record, my 'cdrom' as a LITE-ON 48125W

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Beginning with the Hardy Heron 8.04 development cycle, all open Ubuntu kernel bugs need to be reported against the "linux" kernel package. We are automatically migrating this bug to the new "linux" package. However, development has already began for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. It would be helpful if you could test the upcoming release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . If the issue still exists, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux" task from "Incomplete" to "New". We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make this transition. Thanks!