Back in the fall of 2003 Mandrake now known as Mandriva had a problem with LG
Electronic CD-Roms in which it was killing the drives. At the time, it was
discovered that the CD-ROMs were not compliant with the ATAPI specification
(AT Attachment Packet Interface, an extension to EIDE (also called ATA-2)
that enables the interface to support CD-ROM players and tape drives).
Mandrake had released updates to correct the problem. I wonder if the same
thing is occuring? Unfortunely the link I had at the time went to Mandrake's
site and that domain name is no longer active.
Neil B
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 17:33, Shawn wrote:
> 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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