On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:12:04PM -0600, Peter Horst wrote: > Debian stable. CD/DVD drive appears to be crapping out. dmesg shows: > > [snip] > hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver > hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: packet command error: error=0x30 > ATAPI device hdc: > Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03) > (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00) > The failure "Test Unit Ready" packet command was: > "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " > [snip] > > Is it time for a new drive?
Are you sure the CD/DVD doesn't cause the problem? If this happens with media which are known to work on other systems, I too would agree that the drive itself seems to be bad. -- Martin Hermanowski http://mh57.de/martin
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