My CDROM will mount fine, but it never umount and/or eject properly. The unmounting and ejecting been a problem since FC3rc3 for me. I used to be able to umount it with 'umount -l /dev/hdc' or 'umount - f /dev/hdc'. Tonight however, I am using grip and the only way to eject is to reboot. On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 23:08 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > Thanks. > > It looks to me like somebody has already started a similar/same bug > report for a previous edition of the kernel: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769 > > so i tacked on some comments. The maintainer seems to think the problem > should have been solved by kernel-2.6.7. I hope the developers would > rather have these related things on the same bug report, or else I've > wasted their time. > > pj > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:39:11PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >>The short and sweet is that CDs fail to mount and the message (over and > >>over again) is: > >> > >>kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > >>kernel: hdc: irq timeout: error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0x0d > >>kernel: hdc: DMA disabled > >>kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete > > > > > > Its interesting that ide-scsi works here and ide-cd doesn't. > > > > > >>advised to use ide-cd instead. But that doesn't work. And I've read > >>people saying that cd writing is bad with ide-scsi. > > > > > > Its not "bad", its just an uglier interface. > > > > > >>hdc: _NEC DVD+RW ND-5100A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > > > > > You might want to also add a bug to bugzilla.kernel.org for this, and > > let Jens Axboe/Bartlomiej know too - its an interesting bug and one I've > > not seen elsewhere. > > > > The other "need ide-scsi" cases are multichangers and we understand that > > fine > > > > > -- > Paul E. Johnson email: pauljohn@xxxxxx > Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn > 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 > University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 > Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700 > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc