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Re: harware question - cd-rom error message



On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:12:04PM -0600, Peter Horst wrote:
> Debian stable. CD/DVD drive appears to be crapping out. dmesg shows:
> 
> [snip]
> hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver
> hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x30
> ATAPI device hdc:
>    Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03)
>    (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
>    The failure "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
>    "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> [snip]
> 
> Is it time for a new drive?

Are you sure the CD/DVD doesn't cause the problem?

If this happens with media which are known to work on other systems, I
too would agree that the drive itself seems to be bad.

-- 
Martin Hermanowski
http://mh57.de/martin

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