Re: SONY SMO-F551, non-functional for a loong time :)

[David Ford]

Hmm.  I've since swapped that particular MO with another.  The hang on 
boot is back unless I set the speed down to 5M/s.  Still have problems 
reading/writing it so I'm trying a BusLogic adapter now.

Steve McIntyre wrote:

> David Ford writes:
>  
>
> > For the last couple of years, this MO drive (I have several) has been 
> > unusable.  It used to lock up the machine if I had a disc inside it when 
> > I booted, but that was late in 2.5, and now with 2.6.3, it no longer 
> > hangs the machine, however, it's still not usable.
> >
> > I'd love to get this bugger working, I used to use it a long long time 
> > ago in 2.4 kernels.  Any suggestions?
> >    
>
> You've got hardware problems, either media or drive:
>
>  
>
> > sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
> > Current : sense key Hardware Error
> > ASC=40 ASCQ=86
> >    
>
> Key/code/qual 4/40/86 is (IIRC) Read Channel Calibration Failure,
> which means either the drive hardware is failing or (more likely) the
> disk loaded is buggered and the drive can't read it any more. Try
> another disk...
>
>  
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