On 30 Dec 2007 at 8:09, Kerry Hoath wrote: > There is probably an automounter running or something trying to mount a > cdrom? > Is your cdrom perhaps slaved to the hard drive in that machine? > the other possibility is that your hard drive is jumpered either as slave, > or that you have it set as cable select on the middle of the cable. > If using cable select the master drive goes at the end of the cable; and a > single drive on a cable should be jumpered as master, *not* slave. > This goes for cdroms too. > > Those ide errors mean the drive is not responding when the kernel thinks it > should; and will eventually cause problems. > There are windows systems that have a single slave drive in them or one > mapped as cable select on the middle of the cable and they do work to a > fashion; > but best to configure the hardware correctly. Thanks Kerry Will see if I can get someone to take a look at the hardware configuration. In the mean time, any command I can give it to stop it trying to mount hdb:? Interestingly, The same setup does not complain under windows xp or ubuntu 7.10. The hard drives are plugged in to a caddy and I have 3 drives only one present at any time. > > Regards, Kerry. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <lists at barrettpianos.co.uk> > To: "speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:47 AM > Subject: debian 4.0 hard drive problem > > > > All, > > > > Not found anything on this using google so am trying the list. > > > > The debian box has 1 hard drive. Can't remember what I did with > > the partitions during the install. > > > > System appears to be working but every few minutes I get the > > following error: > > > > hdb: status error: status=0xd8 Busy ide failed opcode was unknown > > hdb: DNA disabled > > hdb: ATAPI resetcomplete > > hdb: request sense failure status =0x51 Drive Ready Seek > > Complete error > > hdb: request sense failure error=0x04 Aborted Command > > > > I thought that hdb would be a second drive but as I only have 1 in > > the machine seems strange. > > > > Also, sounds rather drastic but still seems to boot and work if the > > errors are ignored. > > > > No other os on the machine. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Keith > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 2755 (20071229) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >
