hi
I have a Dell inspiron 6000 with the following hardware :

0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA 
Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])
         Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0188
         Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 0
         Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 18
         Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored>
         Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored>
         Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored>
         Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored>
         Region 4: I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
         Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

onto which a hard drive and a cdrw/dvd combo is attached.

libata version 1.12 loaded.
ahci version 1.01
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled
ahci: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -12
ata_piix version 1.04
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:746b 83:7fe9 84:4023 85:f469 86:3e49 87:4023 
88:203f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 117210240 sectors: lba48
ata1(0): applying bridge limits
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : ata_piix
   Vendor: ATA       Model: Hitachi HTS54106  Rev: MB3O
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:0b00 82:0210 83:1000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 
88:0407
ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
scsi1 : ata_piix
SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0

problem is, it doesn't attach the dvd drive properly...

the config is attached.

did I do something stupid, or is this a bug (that should obviously be 
fixed) ?