Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264520AbTEJWe4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 18:34:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264521AbTEJWez (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 18:34:55 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:1987 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264520AbTEJWey (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 18:34:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 23:47:34 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: logs full of chatty IDE cdrom Message-ID: <20030510224734.GF662@gallifrey> References: <20030510201744.GD662@gallifrey> <1052599284.19351.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1052599284.19351.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Chocolate: 70 percent or better cocoa solids preferably X-Operating-System: Linux/2.5.69 (i686) X-Uptime: 23:38:21 up 11:36, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2585 Lines: 55 * Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > On Sad, 2003-05-10 at 21:17, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: ^^^ Are you running with a Welsh locale there? > > Hi, > > I'm not sure but this seems to be a lot worse in 2.5.x for some > > reason; my logs are full of I/O errors, not ready's and other errors from > > my CDROM drive that is playing audio CDs; I suspect at least some of it > > is due to kscd trying to figure out if there is a CD in an empty drive. > > That shouldnt be generating messages. Its more important to know why or > to see wtf its doing that generates them OK, the full messages on starting kscd up are: May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 0 May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey last message repeated 3 times May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: hde: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: hde: packet command error: error=0x50 May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 0 May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: ATAPI device hde: May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: Parameter list length error -- (asc=0x1a, ascq=0x00) May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: The failed "Mode Select 10" packet command was: May 10 23:37:32 gallifrey kernel: "55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " May 10 23:37:33 gallifrey kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 0 May 10 23:38:04 gallifrey last message repeated 31 times That is with no disc in the drive; the drive identifies itself as: 'Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0109' and driver is 'ide-cdrom version 4.59-ac1' (in 2.5.69) But to be honest, my observation is more general - I'm sure I've seen similar messages from VMware on systems (this system does not have it) and other things rattling the CD drive on older kernels. In general I think I'd just like to tell IDE to be quiet about certain drives so it makes it easier to spot serious errors in the logs. Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/