Re: Weird CD-ROM messages

Jean-Michel F Moreau (zines@pennyroyal.pdxnet.com)
Tue, 3 Dec 1996 18:26:52 -0800 (PST)


I also get that in the debug syslog
Nov 27 23:03:21 pennyroyal kernel: hdb: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51

sometimes when i use the cdrom for more than 2 hrs without stop i get
ATAPI reset complete
then my cdrom wont work till reboot...
i am running linux 2.0.27 on a 133 pent
the cdrom is eide

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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Rob Glover wrote:

>
> Ever since I've had linux, I have got this message when copying stuff off
> of it. <its sparatic, it does not always happen>
>
> dial-cup2-18:/cdrom/kernel/v2.0# cp linux-2.0.12.tar.gz /usr/src
> hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51
> hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x10
>
>
> After this message, I can hear the CD-ROM spin down, then spin up again,
> and the copying is fine. The CD-ROM is an ATAPI 4x speed <Samsung SCR-630>
> running on the second IDE channel (at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15)
> Nothing is wrong while copying anything, but the message is just a bit
> annoying ;>
>
> -Rob
>