Rafael R. Pappalardo wrote: > On Monday 17 December 2007 14:30:06 Brian Green (NET) wrote: >> Brian Green (NET) wrote: >>> Hi All >> [snip] >>
[snip] >> >> In an attempt to resolve it I've: >> >> 1) in the BIOS, disabled the SMART monitoring of the hard drive >> 2) fsch.ext3 all the partitions (as init 1 - the're all "clean") >> 3) checked all the partitions for badblocks (there's none) >> 4) even tried leaving a CD in my DVD drive ... >> >> So, am I suffering from the "libata: constant ata1.00: exception Emask >> 0x2 SAct 0x3f00f SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen" - bug >> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340126)? Cristian says >> that bug has been fixed in 2.6.22.15 - so I do wait for that (I'm >> currently on 2.6.22.13). Or, have I go some other bug/intolerance ... >> >> Can somebody give me a starter/some pointers? >> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Brian > > Dear Brian, > I have noticed that in my system the messages only appear when I introduce a > CD or DVD. I am using opensuse 10.3 with a P5W DH motherboard. > > Best regards, > > Rafael > Hi Rafael Other than: " sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. " in the log file at boot-up, I've *completely* stopped the message by: a) Adding "irqpoll" to the command line b) Disabling smartd in system services Not, yet had time to see if irqpoll alone will staunch the error message (obviously disabling smartd would ...) I'll try unpacking these fixes when I've installed 2.6.22.15 ... Brian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
