> ATAPI device hda: > Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) > Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00) > The failed "Read 10" packet command was: > "28 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 4 > Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 1 That would almost certainly be HAL trying to read the wrong kind of track (eg reading music or video as data). > And after initializing the rest, at the end of dmesg this message > appears a lot of more times. > > The unit works fine for a while, but at some point it freezes and I > cannot eject it, or remount it, or anything. Not even manually I can > open it. > > Is it a hardware problem? Please file a bug bug in bugzilla and initially I'd file it against hal as it seems that it is asking your drive to do stuff it shouldn't be. That said the drive *should not* then lockup but a few seem to take offence. You may find that if you disable all the automatic drive polling for new CD/video/audio/etc that your box then behaves and this would be useful to check, as would what happens if you kill off hald-addon-storage Alan
