On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 13:54, Michael Bay wrote:
I am having a intermitent issue with my cdrom drive. Sometimes it mounts
other times, I get an error that there is no media in the drive. When
there is.
... just a guess, but did you have a *blank* (CDR / CDRW) disk in the drive? This usually is the cause of the error, IMVHO.
HTH,
Elton-- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once: let's make life BETTER for each other." LINUX User #193975 [AMD ATHLON CPU] ICQ #149608718.Public No it is not a blank CD. I have tried several CDs pressed and burned and have the same issue as previously mentioned; I am having a intermitent issue with my cdrom drive. Sometimes it mounts other times, I get an error that there is no media in the drive. When there is. This is what I see in /var/log/messages; Dec 10 03:18:59 hectate kernel: hdd: DMA disabled Dec 10 03:18:59 hectate kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete Dec 10 03:19:10 hectate kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } Dec 10 03:19:10 hectate kernel: hdd: irq timeout: error=0x00 Dec 10 03:19:10 hectate kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete Dec 10 03:19:17 hectate kernel: cdrom: open failed. Dec 10 03:20:06 hectate last message repeated 3 times Dec 10 03:20:33 hectate last message repeated 3 times This is the drive I have ; hdd: CD-956E/AKV, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive