On Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 12:55 pm Arturo Fermin Jimenez wrote: > David Jackson escribió: > >>>hdb: rw=0, want=860800, limit=860728 >>>Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 215199 >>>attempt to access beyond end of device >>>hdb: rw=0, want=860804, limit=860728 >>> >>> >>> >>It doesn't like your CD? The CD in question (hdb) referrs to the second >> ide device/drive, /dev/hda is you linux drive, and /dev/hdb is your CD >> drive. >> >>df or mount should confirm this. >> >> > Hi David, > Thanks, you have given me a starting point. Looing further up on DMESG I > found: > > hdb: AÔAÐI DÖDRÏM 1¶XÍaø , ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > The strange thing is that it mounts fine and df does not show anything > weird. However, my messages file show: > > Dec 14 11:59:44 tux kernel: ATAPI device hdb: > Dec 14 11:59:44 tux kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02) Dec > 14 11:59:44 tux kernel: (vendor-specific error) -- (asc=0xba, > ascq=0x00) > Dec 14 11:59:44 tux kernel: The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet > command was: > Dec 14 11:59:44 tux kernel: "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " > > This goes on and on to fill up to 250MB of warnings!!! > > Any ideas? Arturo, If /dev/hda is a hard drive, /dev/hdb is a CD drive, and they're on the same controller as master & slave, you should move the CD drive to another controller. Do you have a second IDE controller where you could re-install your CD drive as a primary device /dev/hdc? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
