[linux-help] Re: CD-ROM errors

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's called 'percussive maintenance'. It has just about
died out with the demise of vacuum tubes.
John Phillips


On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, James wrote:

> I have a 40x Multi-Read ATAPI IDE (etc, etc..) that I got in the fall 
> (November?)
> and it may be that it is a bad cd-drive, but reading self- or friend-burned 
> CD-R
> especially (others, too), I get something very simialar. It gives me the same
> error (If I remember correctly, it isn't here), and works fine, but it make
> horredious noises sometimes, and sometimes it resets the atapi device 
> (Printing
> out a line like ATAPI Reset Complete ...). One time I got frustrated and 
> whacked
> it, and it stoped doing it for a couple of weeks. (Not something I would
> recomend, but it worked for me) It complains, but does the job fine, so my 
> advice
> would be ignore it.
> 
> James L.
> 
> 
> 
> Carl D Cravens wrote:
> 
> > I'm having trouble with a CD-ROM drive and wondered if anybody had any
> > insights.
> >
> > This drive is fairly new and I'm thinking that it's a "generic" 6x I got
> > at CompUSA cheap.  (I think it's a Panasonic, but I can't tell without
> > removing the drive from this 24x7 server.)  It's a standard IDE and it's
> > worked fine in my wife's Windows box for a few months.
> >
> > I recently installed it in my Linux server to do an upgrade (it's about
> > time I moved to Debian 2.1) and I get all kinds of read errors on the
> > console while trying to read from it.  It might get fifty meg just fine
> > and then starts getting driver-level errors.  I thought it might be the
> > CD's I'd burned on the funky Sony drive at work which gave me all kinds of
> > trouble when I first got it, so I ordered new copies from Linux Mall to be
> > sure... while I seem to get far fewer with the new CD's, I still get
> > errors.
> >
> > Apr  2 15:18:25 lists kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51
> > Apr  2 15:18:25 lists kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x50
> > Apr  2 15:18:25 lists kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 4792
> > Apr  2 15:18:25 lists kernel: hdc: code: 0x70  key: 0x05  asc: 0x64 ascq: 
> > 0x00
> > Apr  2 15:18:37 lists kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51
> > Apr  2 15:18:37 lists kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
> > ...
> > Apr  2 15:19:08 lists kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51
> > Apr  2 15:19:08 lists kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
> > Apr  2 15:19:11 lists kernel: end_request: buffer-list destroyed
> > Apr  2 15:19:23 lists kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51
> > Apr  2 15:19:23 lists kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x50
> > Apr  2 15:19:23 lists kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector  
> > 4792
> > Apr  2 15:19:23 lists kernel: hdc: code: 0x70  key: 0x05  asc: 0x64 ascq: 
> > 0x00
> >
> > Any clues?  Is this drive incompatible with the CDROM driver?  (I thought
> > I'd installed this system off this drive before putting it in my wife's
> > machine, but I could be wrong.)  Is my drive going bad?  As might be
> > obvious, this drive is the "master" on the secondary IDE controller (hdc),
> > there is no slave.  There is one drive on the primary controller.  It may
> > be that I installed with this drive as primary slave instead of secondary
> > master, but that seems unlikely, it being easier to hook it up as
> > secondary master (no jumper fiddling).
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> > Where am I . . . and why am I in this handbasket?
> >
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