I am having this same exact issue with 2 HP Vectra PCs (2000 vintage) and 2 of these have the Mitsumi CD-ROM drives. the show up as [ 60.685005] ata2.00: ATAPI: FX4830T, R02C, max UDMA/33 in dmesg. I have tried acpi=off noapic but no help.
Here are the attachments this currently with acpi=off noapic I can remove these settings and send you a new set of attachments. These PCs are not yet deployed so are available for immediate testing of any solutions u may have. ** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10186278/dmesg.log -- [feisty] CD-ROM drive is not detected correctly since transition to ata_piix for PATA devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs