Excessive syslog output in the absence of removable media

[Willem Riede]

I have a PD/CD ATAPI drive with removable media. The PD part gets mapped to
sdc.
When PD media is absent, something in FC3T3 tries to access it roughly every
two
seconds, and each access causes 20 lines of syslog (see below).
Makes for _really_ large logs (> 10 MB/day).

What program/process is doing this? Is it really necessary?

Thanks, Willem Riede.


Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current : sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current sd: sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current : sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current sd: sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel:  sdc:<3>Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical
block 0
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block
262143
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block
262143
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel:  unable to read partition table