James Bottomley wrote:
The message comes from sr_ioctl.c:sr_do_ioctl(). Which means some user level application is poking the drive with a command that's returning NOT_READY. Apparently it will shut up if quiet is set in the packet command structure. It could be the application is getting the wrong idea of the status from sr_do_staus() which leads it to send commands which require a medium? But we'll need a bit of debugging to determine this.
Userland polling of the cdrom is quite normal (if unfortunately), regardless of medium presence. Probably HAL or dbus.
In theory, the userland app should (a) set quiet and (b) handle not-ready condition just fine.
I presume that (b) is ok, since not-ready just means to continue polling the cdrom ad infinitum, until media appears.
A useful experiment, if only to confirm the obvious, would be to insert some media.
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