lost drives with fc6

[John]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- John <john at johnsdesign.net> wrote:
>
>   
>>   I noticed this morning, that I've lost the cd and
>> floppy icons from 
>> Computer (icon, desktop). I had 11 updates to run
>> last night (Wed)- 
>> kinda stupid to think an update wiped them out, but?
>> I have a cd in the 
>> drive right now, and its dead in the water.
>> Suggestions on how to fix this?
>>
>>                  John
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>
> You are not alone.  This happens to me also.  Running
> dmesg returns
>
> hdd: status error: status=0x40 { DriveReady }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>
> When rebooting, KDE says that there is an audio CD in
> the drive, there's no CD inside.  I click on it and
> then get an error message.
>
> Also to check out if it is FC6's fault, I run SLAX
> Live CD and it runs, but then trying to play a movie,
> it froze and could not run dmesg because ctrl + alt +
> backspace and/or ctrl + alt + delete did not work.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Antonio
>
>
>  
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