[lug] CDROM errors?

[Hugh Brown]

"Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a problem that I think is hardware related, but ....  Watching
> dmesg I see repeated errors ( once every 15 to 20 seconds )
> 
> "hdc: lost interrupt"
> 
> Also, scattered through those is,
> 
> "VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)"

I believe this just means that a different CD was put in.  You might
check to see that all of the cables are well attached to mboard and
cdrom, you might also just try taking them off and putting them back on
again.


> 
> /proc correctly reports that hdc is my "Pioneer CDRom ATAPI model
> DR-A24x 0101" drive.  The diode on the front panel of the CD drive
> blinks at about 1hz without anything in it.
> 
> Also, while I was digging through error messages, at boot time I see
> 
> "ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe"
> 
> Is that a problem?  There should be only 2, ide0 and ide1.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Scott Herod