problems with cd/dvd drives fedora core 6

[John]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep hd*
> known
> hdd: status error: status=0x40 { DriveReady }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hdd: status error: status=0x40 { DriveReady }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hdd: status error: status=0x40 { DriveReady }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hdc: status error: status=0x50 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hdc: status error: status=0x50 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hdd: s[olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 #1 SMP
> Sat Mar 10 19:15:16 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386
> GNU/Linux 
>
> I have disconnected the drives and reconnected them. 
> Still the same issue.  The Bios picks them up and then
> kde tells me that there is a new cd inside and there
> is none.  Hal returns an error
>
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa hal*
> hal-cups-utils-0.6.5-1.fc6
> hal-0.5.8.1-6.fc6
> hal-devel-0.5.8.1-6.fc6
> [olivares at localhost ~]$
>
>
> Bios is a bit old, but was working well for FC3, FC4,
> and now FC6.
>
> Please advice me on what actions should I take.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
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This is probably kinda stupid; I had the same problem and I switched 
from Gnome to KDE. Not sure why everything works in KDE now, when they 
didn't in Gnome... Maybe things will work with Gnome, when they won't 
with KDE.