On Saturday 31 January 2004 19:30, you wrote:
> I got that a lot as well. started with my old cd/cd-r drive (thought it was
> blown). howeverm replacing with a new emprex DVD/R, CD/r didn't solve the
> problem. it works ok in windows on the same box, but for some reason, linux
> (mandrake 9.1) seems to bitch about it.
>
> I am beginning to think its an OS/software related issue. did you recently
> upgrade your OS?
>
> Mage
No, this has been a Mandrake 8 box for well over a year. I'd been having a
hard time with a previous CD drive that seemed flakey - sometimes it would
read a CD, sometimes it wouldn't. I moved it to another box and eventually
it failed there, so I threw it out. It was old and slow so no big loss.
This new CD/DVD drive worked well for quite some time, but I've had rare
occasions when it had trouble playing a CD audio disk. On a couple of those
occasions, a gratutitous reboot fixed that problem.
One thing I did see last week made me think I'd caught a virus - and maybe I
did, but the problem seemed to go away and unfortunately I didn't pursue it
any further. What happened was that I suddenly couldn't access the Internet
- but only on this box. I could still ping the firewall box (it also runs
Mandrake) and get to the web from other Linux and MS machines. I ran "top"
and discovered that kmail had gone crazy, was sucking up most of the system's
RAM and was possibly trying to send an email to someone I'd never heard of.
Of course, I may have accidentally replied or forwarded some piece of spam I
was deleting. Probably should look for a virus checker for this thing.
Vaughn
>
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 02:00 pm, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Symptoms: The drive mounts OK, but when I try to "ls" or "cd" it, the
> > message is "bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error" I've also noticed
> > that in dmesg there are a number of CD-failure related messages, the most
> > notable being:
> >
> > hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
> > hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdc: command error: error=0x54
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
> > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> > cdrom: open failed.
> >
> > And then that last one repeats a bunch of time. I've tried to clean it I
> > can't tell if the drive is actually trying to spin the cleaning disk.
>
> hmmmmmmmm
>
> > Another interesting symptom: when I try to unmount the CD, it says:
> > umount: it seems /mnt/cdrom is mounted multiple times
>
> haven't gotten this one yet.
>
> I am going to try both drives in another box. it could be a bad secondary
> port (I hope not!).
>
> my suggestion, don't toss the drive just yet.
> have it tested in another box.
>
> Mage
>
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