Re: ATAPI CDRom Error

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:23:11 +0000

Michael K Vance wrote:
>
> Got this on a random `cdcd eject`:
>
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x40
> ATAPI device hdc:
> Error: Hardware error -- (Sense key=0x04)
> (vendor-specific error) -- (asc=0xb6, ascq=0x00)
> The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was:
> "1b 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
>
> Basically, it tried to eject, and got stuck after about a cm. Afterwards, it
> was non-repeatable. The message seems to say hardware error, but I've never
> had this happen before, and there wasn't anything blocking the tray <shrug>. I
> also noticed these sort of activities generate messages like:

Yes, it means "Media load mechanism failed" so that seems to indicate a
hardware error.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
* "The only thing that interferes with my
*  learning is my education." -- A. Einstein






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