Fedora 14 : Unable to mount CD / DVD properly

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:40 AM, santosh <santosh.iitg at gmail.com> wrote:
> In Fedora 11 machine and Window machine I am able to mount and able to
> see the contents of CD / DVD.
>
> But in Fedora 14 I am unable to see its contents.
>
> When I insert CD / DVD it displays following message on screen:
>
> " You Have Just Inserted a Blank CD
>   Choose What application to launch
>
>   --> Open CD /DVD creator
>   --> Open Folder
>  "
>
>
> When I choose "Open folder"  It shows CD is blank
>
> But its not a blank CD . I am able to see its contents in another
> machine with Fedora 10 there.
>
> Its a dual boot machine ( fedora 14 / windows )  .  Able to see the
> contents of CD in Windows
>
> I installed fedora 14 using DVD.
>
> dmesg output
> ----------------------
>
> [22345.187115] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> [22345.187125] sr 1:0:0:0: CDB: Xdread, Read track info: 52 01 00 00
> 00 01 00 00 08 00
> [22345.187149] ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
> pio 16392 in
> [22345.187152]          res 40/00:03:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask
> 0x4 (timeout)
> [22345.187159] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
> [22345.187171] ata2: hard resetting link
> [22345.491819] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
> [22345.498409] ata2.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:1f:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
> [22345.498757] ata2.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:02:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
> [22345.507349] ata2.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:1f:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
> [22345.507566] ata2.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:02:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
> [22345.509124] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
> [22345.509516] ata2: EH complete
> [22347.223371] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> [22347.223380] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> [22347.223388] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> [22347.223398] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
> [22347.223413] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> [22347.223421] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> [22347.225096] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> [22347.225104] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> [22347.225112] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> [22347.225121] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
> [22347.225136] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> [22347.225142] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> [22347.228030] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> [22347.228038] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> [22347.228045] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> [22347.228055] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
> [22347.228069] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> [22347.228075] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> [22347.317424] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

I've seen this a couple of times on my desktop. The first time it was
a bad SATA cable/loose connection so I switched to a cable with a
retaining clip. The second time was when the drive was going bad.

Richard