That issue was fixed by both Mandriva and LG, but i really don't think this is
the reincarnation of the same bug, specially that the mandriva 2008 is way
newer than the old one that had this problem ....
Cheers
Szemir
On April 2, 2008 17:58, Neil Bower wrote:
> 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 Mandrake's site and that domain name is no longer active.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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