Soooo... either your drive is dying, or Mandriva has a problem with the
set up for this drive.
Do you have a Live CD of another distro you can try out? If you have
the same problems there, then chances are your CD Drive is toast...
Shawn
peter wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Gustin Johnson wrote:
>> What does dmesg say?
>
> Wow! This message...peated ad nauseum on my original mdv2008 install disk:
>
> hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> ATAPI device hdb:
> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
> Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00)
> The failed "Read CD" packet command was:
> "be 04 00 02 f1 ee 00 00 08 f8 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> ATAPI device hdb:
> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
> Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00)
> The failed "Read CD" packet command was:
> "be 04 00 04 40 0e 00 00 08 f8 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
>
>
>
>> If the CD/DVD drive is ATA, what does hdparm
>> /dev/hdc say
>
> hdparm /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 256 (on)
> HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
>
>> Can it read and mount data disks?
>
> In attempting to read a data disk, the answer is yes, but it takes two to
> three minutes to display the contents of the disk (all accompanied by frantic
> disk seeking sounds). Clicking on a folder on the disk and it takes another
> two to three minutes to read the disk. If I try to copy a file to my HDD, it
> does about 44 bytes and then stalls. Two or three minutes later, it'll do a
> bit more and stall...
>
> That's shed more light on the problem...I installed Mandriva last week from
> data disks, and toward the end of the install, it started to have trouble
> reading the disks. I tried to install lilo at the configurations step and
> gave up because it couldn't read the disk (so I use grub now).
>
>
> I don't have access to a USB external DVD drive so I can't test that to see
> if
> it works...
>
>
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