Reported problem is the exact same as: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/36790 And there was a submitted patch that fixed the problem but it was limited to PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTD08 This same issue has popped up again log here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107847 So I made a simple patch to add this drive to the list that benefits from the patch mentioned in the first link, this solved the problem.
Created attachment 45022 [details] This patch solves the problem
Would you mind submitting the patch yourself? Address it to Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> and cc linux-ide@vger.kernel.org and me <tj@kernel.org>. Please don't forget to add Signed-off-by: and reference to this bug report. Thank you.
merged for 2.6.38-rc3: commit 4a5610a04d415ed94af75bb1159d2621d62c8328 Author: Francesco Antonacci <fraanto@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jan 25 11:54:43 2011 +0100 libata: DVR-212D can't do SETXFER DVD-RW DVR-212D