Could someone explain these error messages from FC2 dmesg?

Bob Chiodini chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Fri Jul 16 14:47:21 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 01:34, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
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> Could someone explain these error messages from FC2 dmesg? 
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> The error messages do not appear when I boot the same hardware with FC1.

> hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: command error: error=0x54
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 0
> hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: command error: error=0x54
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1437824
> hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: command error: error=0x54
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0

Something, maybe magidev, is checking to see if there is a CD in the
drive.  Do the messages occur before or after you log in to X?

In any case, I see these messages quite often and they appear harmless.

Bob...
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