On Monday 19 January 2004 19:15, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently got a BenQ 48X48x24x16 ATAPI CD-R/RW/DVD combo drive and > > managed to get it working with Debian GNU/Linux and custom kernel 2.4.24 > > using the generic scsi library. I think its working because at least it > > created an audio cd out of a blank cd-rw which apparently can't be read > > by my hifi music system even after fixating twice. > > > > However I get this very annoying scsi error on all 12 virtual consoles > > telling me CDROM is not ready when I have not even made an attempt to > > access the drive. > > > > sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disk in the drive. > > > > The above error message is repeated over and over in all virtual consoles > > I swich to thus giving me no space to type any command or do any useful > > work. > > > > Grateful if someone can save the situation and show me how to stop sr0 > > from taking over my PC. > > Ah! Just realised that the error bombardment is set off immediately after > starting X (kde 3.15). I have no X applications trying to access /dev/cdrom > which now points to /dev/scd0. Still can't figure out the connection > between X and ide-scsi. Any ideas?
kscd was the culprit. a session crashed sometime back but resumed in the background whenever I started X. ps aux | grep kscd confirmed a running process which was subsequently killed by passing a SIGHUP signal. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
