Comment 22 for bug 198871

Ok, today I went to my local computer shop. Bought a new SATA DVD-RW for about 25 e, inserted into my PC. Disabled the Jmicron controller in the BIOS... and everything works beautifully. Now I'm running Ubuntu and while I feel very relieved I also feel really annoyed that it took me a whole year to just realise that it was fixable by just getting a new cheap drive... Well I probably won't be able to use any PATA devices on this PC, but for now I'm happy with this.