Looks like one of the drives has just failed, either that or the secondary ide controller has failed but if the cdrom works; then the ide controller should e ok. Aborting due to timeout means a device just stopped responding writer might be dead. On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:38:25AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I went back and investigated my /var/log/messages.0 (the ones for last week. > Here is what I found for the morning of the 26th. Previous to this there are > nothing but "mark" notations for quite a while. > the only thing I can trace this to is that I inadvertently started up cdcd at > one point which would have involved hdd. At the time I did this, I was also > doing a recording to my hard drive from a cassette recorder with the "record" > from the oss package I bought from opensound.com. this is probably the reason > for the comment about over-runs. > > May 26 01:07:18 maranatha kernel: hdd: DMA disabled > May 26 01:07:28 maranatha kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 40675, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 > May 26 01:07:38 maranatha kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 40675, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 > May 26 01:07:38 maranatha kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 40675) timed out - resetting > May 26 01:07:38 maranatha kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > May 26 01:07:39 maranatha kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 40675, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 > May 26 01:07:39 maranatha kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 40675) timed out - resetting > May 26 01:07:39 maranatha kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > May 26 01:07:39 maranatha kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 40675, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 > May 26 01:07:39 maranatha kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 40675) timed out - resetting > May 26 01:07:39 maranatha kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > May 26 01:07:40 maranatha kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 40675, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 > May 26 01:07:40 maranatha kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 40675) timed out - resetting > May 26 01:07:40 maranatha kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > > This goes on for a while, and then: > > May 26 01:09:20 maranatha kernel: ide1: reset timed-out, status=0x80 > Then: > > May 26 02:14:35 maranatha kernel: OSS warning: Application record caused too many recording overrun errors on audio device #0. > May 26 02:14:35 maranatha kernel: Look at oss/docs/README.performance for more info. > > And from the next boot on, my cdroms aren't heard from again on this system, > except for > > May 26 12:34:09 maranatha kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS setti\ > ngs: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > > each time I boot. > > The log shows clearly that they were both functioning fine up to this point. > Cheryl > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au