PCMCIA CD Drive badly recognized

[villemeur]

Hi,

I have a laptop on which I need to connect an external CDDrive through the PCMCIA port.
When I plug it, it seems to be well recognized, as shown bellow:

kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
cardmgr[1452]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
kernel: hdc: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0xff)
kernel: hdc: ARCHOS MiniCDRW XS8432, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
kernel: ide1 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3

However, almost immediatly, I have the following message coming up:
kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
kernel: hdc: irq timeout: error=0x60 { LastFailedSense=0x06 }
kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete

The IRQ Nb 3 is free on my laptop, as shown by this extract from /proc: ls irq/*
irq/0:
irq/1: i8042
irq/10: Allegro
irq/11:
irq/12: i8042
irq/13:
irq/14: ide0
irq/15:
irq/2:
irq/3:
irq/4:
irq/5:
irq/6:
irq/7:
irq/8: rtc
irq/9: eth0 uhci_hcd:usb1 yenta

I have been able to use this CDdrive under other linux distro (Debian and gentoo). I wanted to use a more desktop friendly distro, and I'm surprised I have this kind of surprise. As fedora have an enhanced kernel, I don't really want to compile my own, even if I have already done this on other distro

If anyone has an idea of what is wrong, and how I correct this under fedora, thanks for your help.
Renaud