Re: CD-ROM hardware failures on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0

2003-12-29 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 18:28, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Basically, the kernel routinely tries to access the CD to check something. > > This > > is progressively wearing down the drive, as there is often nothing to be > > mounted > > (drive empty)

Re: CD-ROM hardware failures on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0

2003-12-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 18:28, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Basically, the kernel routinely tries to access the CD to check something. > This > is progressively wearing down the drive, as there is often nothing to be > mounted > (drive empty) yet the kernel keeps on trying to spin the drive up. >

CD-ROM hardware failures on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0

2003-12-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Basically, the kernel routinely tries to access the CD to check something. This is progressively wearing down the drive, as there is often nothing to be mounted (drive empty) yet the kernel keeps on trying to spin the drive up. This problem also existed on previous kernels. Lately, this drive we