Hi Adam, Your hard disk isn't broken, there is a problem whith the bios and linux, probe tu disable ulra dma on bios setup.
Please tell me since it has gone to you!! ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:09:44 +1200 Subject: 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. I tried rm -rf /dev/dvd ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd ... but am not having success in mounting dvd and dmesg is giving me the output below which I can't interpret. Can someone tell me what 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' means ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tux:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems This error message is new. Mounting a Pioneer dvd player - which plays CD's - and *also* mounting a CDRW should not be a problem (allowing me to use cdrecord). Tux:~# dmesg <snip> hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA SCSI subsystem initialized Linux Kernel Card Services options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x50 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x50 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 udf: registering filesystem UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_s tart=0 UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:1546:udf_fill_super: Multi-session=0 UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:534:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte secto rs) hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x50 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:1282:udf_check_valid: Failed to read byte 32768. As suming open disc. Skipping validity check hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x50 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1280796 hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } -- (o_ (o_ (o_ //\ (/)_ (\)_ V_/_ Luis Pérez Meliá