From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261289AbUBWAXU (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:23:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261291AbUBWAXU (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:23:20 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-99-153-203.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.99.153.203]:8608 "EHLO blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261289AbUBWAXS (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:23:18 -0500 Message-ID: <403947F1.7060108@blue-labs.org> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:23:13 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040214 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SONY SMO-F551, non-functional for a loong time :) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hmm. I've since swapped that particular MO with another. The hang on boot is back unless I set the speed down to 5M/s. Still have problems reading/writing it so I'm trying a BusLogic adapter now. Steve McIntyre wrote: >David Ford writes: > > >>For the last couple of years, this MO drive (I have several) has been >>unusable. It used to lock up the machine if I had a disc inside it when >>I booted, but that was late in 2.5, and now with 2.6.3, it no longer >>hangs the machine, however, it's still not usable. >> >>I'd love to get this bugger working, I used to use it a long long time >>ago in 2.4 kernels. Any suggestions? >> >> > >You've got hardware problems, either media or drive: > > > >>sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: >>Current : sense key Hardware Error >>ASC=40 ASCQ=86 >> >> > >Key/code/qual 4/40/86 is (IIRC) Read Channel Calibration Failure, >which means either the drive hardware is failing or (more likely) the >disk loaded is buggered and the drive can't read it any more. Try >another disk... > > >