Could someone explain these error messages from FC2 dmesg?

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Jul 16, Yang Xiao did say:

> 
> Hi,
> try put a cd in the drive and see if you still see the errors during
> boot, I think it was addressed earlier(can't remember exactly where),
> that it's smartd trying to check removable media and complains when
> there's no media in the drive.
> However, I only saw it when using the packaged kernel 2.6.5-1.358 from
> FC2, once I upgraded to 435, the error went away.
> Yang

Thanks for the advice. Will try that. Perhaps that would also solve the
problem getting the cd-rw recognized by k3b as well. When I know if it
makes any difference I'll post an update.

Thanks

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