Bug#508339: cdrom: 'no common CD-ROM was detected' during 'detect & mount CD-ROM' step

[clive <clivemassey@waitrose.com>]

Package: cdrom
Severity: important


i'm trying to install 4.0r2 (etch) from DVDs on a Toshiba Satellite L-300 laptop with a Pentium Dual T3200 processor,
 & using default boot (ie no parameters).

i seem to get some error msgs (from the bios, i think, which is an Insyde H2O BIOS version 1.20), but end up
with the 'choose language' screen. i choose 'english', then 'united kingdom', then 'british english'.

i see it's 'detecting hardware', then i get 'detect & mount CD-ROM' screen telling me:

'no common CD-ROM drive was detected, you may need to load additional drivers from a floppy....etc'.

obviously i have no floppy & i reply: NO.  i get: 'manually select CD-ROM modules & drive'.
replying: YES here gets me a list i don't understand, & replying: NO gets me 'installation step failed'.

i can try to skip this installation step, but it won't allow this (unsurprisingly, i guess).

the drive is a TSST corp CDDVDW TS-L633A (S4) & i guess that this is what's causing the problem as it isn't on
 the list of known models?

    clive massey


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)