CD-ROM not working with FC4

[gveiga-ff]

Am I the only one still with this problem?

My CD-ROM reader (in a Dell Inspiron 8100) stopped working ever since I installed fc4. I went with many kernel updates with only different variation of the problem. It ranges from the CD not mounting to crashes when booting the the system with an CD in the drive. The drive, of course, works under MSWindows and even booting from a FC4 installation CD.

Currently I am running kernel 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4. Also I reported it as a bug which eventually was folded into this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162347

Bug fixed, but I am not sure if the fix made it into these latest updates. But everyone else stopped complaining ...

Typical log goes like this:
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Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest }
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: status error: error=0x7f {
IllegalLengthIndication EndOfMedia AbortedCommand MediaChangeRequested
LastFailedSense=0x07 }Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: ide: failed opcode was:
unknown
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: ATAPI reset complete
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
Oct 1 12:35:22 ggv-win32 kernel: hdb: status error: error=0x7f {
IllegalLengthIndication EndOfMedia AbortedCommand MediaChangeRequested
LastFailedSense=0x07 }
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Repeats ad eternum.