On Sunday 20 March 2005 07:46, Steve Sykes wrote: >I get this line in my log file repeated over and over. > >kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > >How can I stop it? Did you perchance have a floppy mounted at some point, and then removed it without doing a 'umount /mnt/floppy' on it first? That will load up your logs with such messages. The umount (unmounting) operation will flush possibly dirty cache buffers to the disk, and deallocate them. If thats the case, you should reinsert THAT exact disk, wait about 6 or 7 seconds, then do the umount operation. Or you could reboot, but that won't guarantee that the disk in question is fully uptodate with whatever it was you were writing to it. The same thing could be said for a cd, but since the mount also locks the drawer so it cannot be opened in most cases until it has been unmounted, thats not nearly so often an occurrance. >Regards, >Steve Sykes -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
