CDROM mount issues

[Michael Bay]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 13:54, Michael Bay wrote:

>>> I am having a intermitent issue with my cdrom drive. Sometimes it mounts
>>> other times, I get an error that there is no media in the drive.  When
>>> there is. 
>  
>
> ... just a guess, but did you have a *blank* (CDR / CDRW) disk in the
>drive? This usually is the cause of the error, IMVHO.
>
>HTH,

>Elton 
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#193975 [AMD ATHLON CPU] ICQ #149608718.Public No it is not a blank CD. 
I have tried several CDs pressed and burned and have the same issue as 
previously mentioned; I am having a intermitent issue with my cdrom 
drive. Sometimes it mounts other times, I get an error that there is no 
media in the drive.  When there is.  This is what I see in 
/var/log/messages; Dec 10 03:18:59 hectate kernel: hdd: DMA disabled Dec 
10 03:18:59 hectate kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete Dec 10 03:19:10 
hectate kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } Dec 10 03:19:10 
hectate kernel: hdd: irq timeout: error=0x00 Dec 10 03:19:10 hectate 
kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete Dec 10 03:19:17 hectate kernel: cdrom: 
open failed. Dec 10 03:20:06 hectate last message repeated 3 times Dec 
10 03:20:33 hectate last message repeated 3 times This is the drive I 
have ; hdd: CD-956E/AKV, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive