Hi, I suspect my CD/DVD drive has gone AWOL. Symptoms are:
Load an audio CD into drive: green drive LED and red system (disk
activity?) LEDs flash ~12 times; File Browser shows CD-RW/DVD+-RW
Drive icon, which when left-clicked says "Unable to mount media. There
is probably no media in the drive."[sic] Same response on right-click
Open, Mount or Eject.
Load a data CD into drive, it spins up audibly (didn't do that for the
audio disk), though nothing appears on desktop, nothing accessible on
FIle Browser (same as above), and /media/cdrom0 is present but empty.
SoundJuicer comes up empty, nothing happens when asked to Re-read
disk, but *is* able to eject the disk.
fstab entry:
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
dmesg has the lines
[ 26.963528] hda: HL-DT-STDVD+-RW GSA-H21N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
...
[ 28.293872] hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB
Cache, UDMA(33)
Just in the last half hour, this three times in /var/log/messages and kern.log:
Oct 5 11:25:05 ss07 kernel: [446662.762946] ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
Oct 5 11:25:05 ss07 kernel: [446662.762951] hda: DMA timeout retry
Oct 5 11:25:05 ss07 kernel: [446663.819773] hda: cdrom_decode_status:
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Oct 5 11:25:05 ss07 kernel: [446663.819777] hda: cdrom_decode_status:
error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
Oct 5 11:25:05 ss07 kernel: [446663.819781] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
- no similar messages in earlier log files.
This system is just /under/ a year old, from dabs.com so may well have
a warranty but would need to check that and then dig it out, and then
go through returns procedure hassle I could do without as this is my
main work box.
<the old plaint>It was working /fine/ before, and I haven't done
anything... </old plaint> - in fact I used it quite a bit recently
ripping a number audio CDs. The only other recent event of note is
turning it off and leaving it for a fortnight in September.
This is an Acer Aspire, Athlon Dual Core 64 bit, running Feisty.
I guess shut down, open box, re-seat connectors is the next thing to do?
thanks,
victor
