On Tuesday December 18 2007 16:43:00 Mirko Parthey wrote:
> After between 10 and 60 minutes of uptime, my DVD drive begins
> to show strange behaviour:
>
> - an icon appears on the KDE desktop showing either a data
> CD-ROM or an audio CD (although the tray is empty and closed)
>
> - in /var/log/kern.log, these messages appear in large numbers:
>
> Dec 18 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The
> drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by
> ending request. Dec 18 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: hda: status
> error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Dec
> 18 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Dec
> 18 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> Dec 18 10:28:02 guitar2 kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58
> { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Dec 18 10:28:02 guitar2
> kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>
> At this stage, the drive becomes unusable, while it it is
> working fine otherwise. A reboot "fixes" the problem, until the
> next occurence.
>
> I am not sure where to report this bug - maybe for
> linux-image-2.6.23-1-amd64? Has anybody seen something like
> this before?
> Any hints how I could rule out faulty hardware?
>
> I am running debian testing (amd64), with both 64-bit kernel
> and userspace. The problem appears with any of the 2.6.18-5
> (stable), 2.6.22-3 (testing) and 2.6.23-1 (unstable) kernel
> packages.
>
> my hardware:
> - PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A, firmware 1.07
> (restored to original Plextor firmware for this bug report)
> - mainboard Gigabyte 965P-S3, with this IDE controller:
> 03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron
> 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
>
> Any further information I should provide?Maybe a cable is loose? Maybe a dying drive? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA 484,246 sq mi (1,254,197 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150' (a nice suburban US plot). That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom.
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