On Friday 24 December 2004 9:09 am, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > >Since it just silently dissappears, I have no idea where to start > > diagnosing this. > > Have you considered running a script every minute via cron to check the > drives status and send the result to a log file? When it disappears, > you'll have a time stamp and then you can check the real logs for what > went on @ that time. > > I don't know how you're checking the drives status, but the following > might form the basis for a script: > #!/bin/bash > date >>log.file > # Put your checking code here, and make sure you output to the same log > file, most likely via>>log.file > > Then add the script to crontab to run every minute and wait for it to > happen again. > With a bit more sophisticatiuon, you could have the box send you an > email or ring the bell when it occurs. Hello, Bill I did a little research on my own (on the theme of logs), and I found the following in /var/log/messages: Dec 20 14:00:17 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Dec 20 14:00:17 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff kernel: usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 4 Dec 22 09:08:32 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff hal.hotplug[12252]: DEVPATH is not set Dec 22 09:08:32 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff hal.hotplug[12261]: DEVPATH is not set Dec 22 09:08:32 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Dec 23 00:07:26 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Dec 23 00:07:26 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff kernel: usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 4 Dec 23 00:07:26 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff hald[27698]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event 415. Rebasing to 418 Dec 23 00:07:26 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff fstab-sync[29780]: removed mount point /media/cdrom1 for /dev/scd0 Dec 24 02:35:20 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Dec 24 02:35:20 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff kernel: usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 4 Dec 24 02:35:21 x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff fstab-sync[14590]: removed mount point /media/cdrecorder for /dev/scd0 I then located the following link: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg02386.html Is my issue like the one referred to in the email that I put the link for? If I have found something new, please let me know, and I will add my comments to whatever bug you can lead me to, or I can file a new one, if you will tell me where, and what component and sub-component I should file it under. I just downloaded the FC3 updates-testing kernel. I will proceed to install that and reboot. I will get back to you with whatever I find. Steven P. Ulrick
