I took the liberty to confirm the bug. Here is my scenario. I have a machine with a has one (old) IDE CD-RW connected to the (new) SATA-only motherboard using a DeLock IDE SATA 61719 adapter. This adapter uses the Sunplus IT, SATALink, SPIF223A-HL022 chipset. This works semi-well on Windows. The processor is a AMD A10-5700 APU and the boot disk is an SSD, so one would decent performance.
Yesterday I installed (Ubuntu-based) Mint 17.1. The install went very slooooow in some parts but it completed. After installation the machine took 2min 25sec to the login prompt and then 30sec to show the desktop. I looked at the system log (dmesg) and found many errors to do with one particular ATA drive and looking closer it was the drive connected using the adapter. I removed the adapter and the boot time came to 9sec + 8sec. I didn't actually try to use the device, so I didn't experience any freezes of the system. The only thing I can say is that the machine with this hardware connected is prohibitively slow. So clearly: DVD PATA-SATA bridge (SPiF223A) doesn't work!! I'm happy to supply any additional information required. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377483 Title: DVD PATA-SATA bridge (SPiF223A) doesn't work... Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: DVD drive connected using JAE50 PATA-SATA adapter doesn't work. Motherboard - Zotac 610i (nvidia nForce 610i), DVD drive - HP TS-L16C (I tried also another drives - they doesn't work too). Under windows this drive works fine. PATA-SATA adapter is based on Satalink SPiF223A chip. I tried to boot using acpi=off, noapic, pci=nomsi options but no success. Also I tried to boot ubuntu dvd but failed during kernel startup. Also I tried kernel from Ubuntu 9.04 (2.6.28) but it failed to attach DVD too. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.31 ProcCmdLine: User Name=/dev/sda1 ro ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-11.31-generic SourcePackage: linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/377483/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
