On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:51 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 09:43 am, James Pifer wrote: > > I started having problems with my laptop last night. Thought it had > > something to do with a wireless card I was messing with, but now I don't > > think so. I'm seeing this in /var/log/messages: > > > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: hdc: tray open > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 0 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 1 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 2 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 3 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 4 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 5 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 6 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 7 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 8 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical > > block 9 > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: hdc: tray open > > Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0 > > Sep 28 07:12:09 laptop su(pam_unix)[4320]: session opened for user root > > by (uid=500) > > Sep 28 08:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[5570]: session opened for user > > root by (uid=0) > > Sep 28 08:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[5570]: session closed for user > > root > > Sep 28 09:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[6109]: session opened for user > > root by (uid=0) > > Sep 28 09:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[6109]: session closed for user > > root > > Sep 28 09:29:59 laptop kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 > > Sep 28 09:30:42 laptop kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 > > > > Is my drive failing? Any suggestions? > Is /dev/hdc a cdrom or other optical device, or it it a hd? > -- I think hdc is the CDROM, so I don't why it think there's a problem with it, since the tray IS closed and there's no CDROM in it. But the last two lines: dma_timer_expiry on hda? Thanks, James
