Re: CD-ROM hardware failures on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 18:28, Martin-Ã?ric Racine wrote:
> > Basically, the kernel routinely tries to access the CD to check something. This
> > is progressively wearing down the drive, as there is often nothing to be mounted
> > (drive empty) yet the kernel keeps on trying to spin the drive up.
> >
> > This problem also existed on previous kernels.
> > Another problem (much likely related to the same bug) is that if I don't leave
> > any CD (audio or data - same result) in the drive, the kernel eventually reaches
> > the conclusion that the drive cannot be accessed and the only cure is to reboot;
> > neither audio or data CDs can be accesed anymore, I instead get IDE errors.
> Have you enabled any automounting related options in the kernel? Or do you
> have any automounting related daemons running? (magicdev seems to work
> without constant activity here though)
Enabled in the kernel, but no utility using it, for now.
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Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
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