Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Could someone explain these error messages from FC2 dmesg? > > The error messages do not appear when I boot the same hardware with FC1. > <snip> > hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: command error: error=0x54 > end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 0 > hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdd: command error: error=0x54 > end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1437824 > hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdd: command error: error=0x54 > end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 > <snip> > <End extract from dmesg> > > It would seem that FC2 thinks my cd drives are sick. But I don't get any > errors from actual operation of them. They just don't scan well. > > I'd like to mention that in FC1 both the dvd-rom on hdd and the cd-rw on > hdb=ide-scsi work fine with xcdroast. But for FC2 I found that I could > only burn music cd's with xcdroast. I also found that trying to boot > the FC2 kernel with "hdb=ide-scsi" was a bad idea... What does hdparm say? Has FC2 turned DMA on, whereas FC1 had it off? James. -- E-mail address: james@ | Important note: when washing your brain out with westexe.demon.co.uk | nitric acid, it is important to stop *after* you've | erased the distressing images and *before* you get | the urge to install AOL. -- "Jim"