Mark, What's your opinion about this? I can in fact reproduce it, and I basically understand why it's happening, but what to do?
It seems to me that during the hdparm query, the kernel notices a seek error (I'm guessing - haven't looked up what 0xec is) and reports the seek error. hdparm is correct for doing the tests, and the kernel isn't wrong for reporting it, I don't think, but getting scary messages in syslog every time you look at drive parameters isn't right either. Hmm. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | You can't push on a string. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Begin Message ---Package: hdparm Version: 6.1-5 Severity: normal When I run 'hdparm -I /dev/cdrom', the following appears in the system log: Sep 16 11:56:57 localhost kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 16 11:56:57 localhost kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } Sep 16 11:56:57 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xec The output seems correct though: /dev/cdrom: ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media Model Number: _NEC DVD+/-RW ND-6500A Serial Number: Firmware Revision: 2.58 Standards: Likely used CD-ROM ATAPI-1 Configuration: DRQ response: 3ms. Packet size: 12 bytes Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(cannot be disabled) DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns I am using original Linux Kernel 2.6.13.1, patched with ACPI 20050902, but the problem appeared also with Debian kernel pakage 2.6.12 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (400, 'unstable'), (200, 'stable'), (1, 'sarge-unsupported') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.1-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hdparm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii lsb-base 3.0-5 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip hdparm recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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