Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

[Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>]

Voluspa wrote:
 
> On 2005-08-14 20:10:49 Nick Warne wrote:
> 
>>Note the last sentence:
>>
>>' This  variation  is  designed for use with "libraries" of drive
>>identification information, and can also be used on ATAPI drives which may
>>give  media errors with the standard mechanism.
> 
> My jaw just clonked on the table. And the media error at hand made you
> buy a new CD-RW. There is precedence for this (remember the blaming X and
> other programs in the keyboard driver?) 

Just for the record, it was a KDE service daemon that caused these errors for 
me, like a 24MB log in 12 hours:

KDED Media Manager

Also trying to remember, I had a CD-RW on /dev/hdc and a CD-R on /dev/hdd.  It 
was /dev/hdd that give those errors, but I only passed the SCSI emulation on 
kernel line for the CD-RW.

So I suppose it uses similar code (of sorts) as HDPARM.  I dunno.

The old drive was 6 years old anyway - so after I sussed the issue I pretend I 
did an upgrade ;-)

Nick
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