Cdrom drive access question

[Dean Fujioka]

MonMotha,

I've posted the errors on this page:
http://www.geocities.com/surfdean/eatit.htm
directly out of dmesg  the space indicates where the file is non-contiguous.
any help is appreciated.

dean

----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: Cdrom drive access question


> Go ahead and put all relevent errors on an HTML page or something and
> post it to a site (I can post it if you don't have access to a web host,
> email me the stuff privately).  I'm no kernel guru, but I'll go ahead
> and take a look at it.
>
> --MonMotha (monmotha at indy.rr.com)
>
> Dean Fujioka wrote:
>
> > Charles,
> > Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately my controller only has one
interface,
> > which has the CDrom drive and a 100mb zip drive on it.  I have two hard
> > drives, both IDE on the primary channel. My computer will now not boot
into
> > linux very stably, and freezes causing me to run fsck manually over and
over
> > again.  I've unplugged the cdrom and was able to dmesg, and got
something
> > I/O error on sba 08:00 something or other. I can post it if you think it
> > would help, but it might take some doing, as I'm having trouble just
keeping
> > everything running at this point. I didn't get to check
/var/log/messages
> > yet, but will try.
> > thanks,
> > dean
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <cpaul at telemetrybox.org>
> > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:25 AM
> > Subject: [luau] Re: Cdrom drive access question
> >
> >
> >
> >>If your SCSI controller has two interfaces, try putting your CDRom on
the
> >>
> > (slower) interface seperate from your Hard Drive.  Short of that, check
your
> > /var/log/messages or dmesg to see if there are any periodic bus errors
which
> > might be associated with your performance hiccups.
> >
> >>aloha,
> >>charles
> >>
> >>
> >>On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:43:31PM -1000, Dean wrote:
> >>
> >>>I was wondering if anyone has experienced issues with cdrom drives that
> >>>check for a cd every minute or so. Whenever this happens, the screen
> >>>freezes temporarily and then comes back.  The thing is, though that
only
> >>>the scsi cd-writer (yamaha 4x on a adaptec 2940AU) is having the
> >>>problem, while the cdrom on the ide channel does not do this. Is there
> >>>any way to disable this? please point me to a man page or something...
> >>>just typing drives me nutz.
> >>>
> >>>thanks,
> >>>dean
> >>>
> >>>
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