[NBLUG/talk] CD problem (SuSE)

[Cal Herrmann]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, ME wrote:

> Cal Herrmann said:
> > I have put SuSE 8.2 in, as usual I have a little problem beyond me!
> > I have a CD, a CDrecorder (zip brand), and a zip drive: the CDrecorder
> > connection works, but the others seem to have a-or-more problem.
> > fstab says:
> > ...
> > /dev/hdb4   /media/zip    auto    noauto,user
> > /dev/cdrecorder  /media/cdrecorder   auto   ro,noauto,user,exec
> > /dev/cdrom   /media/cdrom    /auto   ro,noauto,user,exec
Sorry, my typo, hand-copying
> this seems wrong to me         ^^^^^
>
> Could you report what this shows:
> # ls -l /dev/cdrecorder
The one that works!
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  3 2003-04-26 03:15 /dev/cdrecorder -> sr0
> # ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root    3 2003-04-26 03:15 /dev/cdrom -> hdb
>
....
> Also could you do this:
> # dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.nblug.txt
> If the file is less than 10k, attach it to your reply to this list.
> If it is more than 10K send it to me in a personal e-mail message.

Maybe some bits will help, before I try to send the 328 lines!
...
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 92048U8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ATAPI 50X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c03caa40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: ZIPCD 4x650, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 750 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
....
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdd: attached ide-floppy driver.
hdd: 735250kB, 1470500 blocks, 512 sector size
hdd: 735232kB, 718/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 3676 rpm
hdd: The disk reports a capacity of 752896000 bytes, but the drive only
handles  752877568
Partition check:
 hda:<6> [PTBL] [2482/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3
 hdd: hdd4
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
....
hdd: The disk reports a capacity of 752896000 bytes, but the drive only
handles  752877568
 hdd: hdd4
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
i8253 count too high! resetting..
i8253 count too high! resetting..
	This happens many times! and then the following, for a bunch
of sectors ...-cal
....
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 66
lost async page write due to I/O error on 03:40
hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: command error: error=0x54
...
These Properties, below, come from files in /tmp/kde-cal/Desktop-0, which
lists both the CDROM and the Zip as mountpoint /media/zip.  Are these
config files that can be corrected? Or do they read something else??
 >
> > properties (right-click on the icon) say:    device    mount
> > cdrom  /tmp/kde-cal/Desktop-0            /dev/cdrom  /media/zip
> > zip     ditto                            /dev/hdb4   /media/zip
> > cdR     ditto                       /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder
> > left-click on the zip icon (a disk is in) gives: mount /dev/hdb4: unknown
> > device.  Same if I try to mount /dev/hdb4, as root.
> > Yast2 says:         link             mount
> > CD     /dev/hdb    /dev/cdrom      /media/cdrom
> > iomega(CDR) /dev/Si0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder
> > and finds the zip is /dev/hdd, the CD is /dev/hdb
...
> It looks like fstab and/or drive config/settings are confused. Once I can
> see your bootlog (output of dmesg after a boot) we might be able to better
> diagnose this.
>
...
> -ME
>
Thanks, Cal