DVD drive not detected anymore

[Henk Altena]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Henk Altena wrote:
>
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>> Recently my DVD combo drive a Philips PBDV1640P is  not detected by FC6
>> x86_64 at the first booting of the machine. I have to boot a second
>> time, then the DVD is detected.
>> How can I force FC6 to detect my DVD so I do not have to boot twice ?
>>     
>
>
> Anyway, a few questions/comments.
> 3.  On the first boot, save /var/log/dmesg someplace and reboot.  Then compare the /var/log/dmesg file created at the second boot.
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Ed here is my dmesg file. Take a look at /dev/hdd !  Now the question is 
it a  BIOS or FC6 error ?
 
DVD combo drive detection is O.K. in FC6 x86_64:
------snip----snip----snip-----april 17th---------
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG SP0802N, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: PHILIPS PBDV1640P, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 156368016 sectors (80060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, 
CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600b
, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

------snip----snip----snip-----april 18th-------

DVD combo drive is NOT detected by FC6 x86_64, note the name of the DVD 
drive
PHHLHPR in stead of PHILIPS:

VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG SP0802N, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: PHHLHPR PBDV0640P, ATAPI UNKNOWN (type 4) drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 156368016 sectors (80060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, 
CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600b
, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide