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Re: bad management of external devices...



On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:41:11AM +0200, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> Everytime I use a CD/DVD or plug an usb device, logwatch reports kernel
> errors:
> 
> 
> UDFUDF-fs: error (device sr0): ud ...:  6 Time(s)
>     end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector ...:  6 Time(s)
>     sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0]  Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error ...:  5 Time(s)
>     sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0]  Sense Key : Medium Error [current]  ...:  6 Time(s)
>     usb 4-1.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 ...:  4 Time(s)
>     usb 4-1.3: device not accepting address 6, error -71 ...:  1 Time(s)
>     usb 4-1.3: device not accepting address 7, error -71 ...:  1
> Time(s)-fs: error (device sr0): ud ...:  6 Time(s)
>     end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector ...:  6 Time(s)
>     sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0]  Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error ...:  5 Time(s)
>     sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0]  Sense Key : Medium Error [current]  ...:  6 Time(s)
>     usb 4-1.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 ...:  4 Time(s)
>     usb 4-1.3: device not accepting address 6, error -71 ...:  1 Time(s)
>     usb 4-1.3: device not accepting address 7, error -71 ...:  1 Time(s)
> 
> For CD/DVD, the management is awful: they are not automatically mounted
> in spite of the fact that I ticked the boxes in my preferences... And
> when they are unmounted, even if an icon is present on the desk (this
> not always the case), there is no eject possibility when I right click
> on the icon. Using the button on the CD-reader takes ages if it works...
> 
> For usb devices, an icon appears on the desk but it is randomly mounted....
> 
> Thank you

I see that you seem to not have gotten any replies, so I thought I'd
try to help. Are you able to boot from CD? If yes, then do you see
these issues if you try using a live CD? If yes, then that would
suggest some sort of a hardware problem to me. If no, then it's
probably something specific to your system/install, but I'm not sure
what. I've found from past experience that if a CD drive acts oddly
and refuses to eject at times that it is usually a problem with the
ribbon cable going to the drive. The connection became loose
somewhere, or the cable just went bad. I've also seen this happen when
using a splitter adapter for the power connection. In that case, one
or both drives would randomly misbehave when they were getting power
via the splitter. Good luck.

Greg


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