Non working dvd drive.

DAVID BENTLEY david.r.bentley at btinternet.com
Sun Feb 5 15:14:13 UTC 2006


I have a system that had core 4 working on it till
FC5T2 was installed 
recently and have just noticed that my slot type dvd
drive that was used to 
boot and install FC5T2 from does not recognize the
presence of any media that you insert into it.

System is fully updated and the drive still works OK
in "WINDOWS" and at boot time it is a SCSI Pioneer
DVD-303.

excerpt from /var/log/messages to show what it is
detected as at boot time
follows :-

Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec
AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:         <Adaptec 2940
Ultra SCSI adapter>
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:         aic7880:
Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: 
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:   Vendor: IBM OEM  
Model: DCHS04U           Rev: 5353
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:   Type:  
Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision:
02
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged
Queuing enabled.  Depth 4
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:0:
Beginning Domain Validation
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:0: wide
asynchronous
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:0: FAST-20
WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 8)
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:0: Domain
Validation skipping write tests
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:0: Ending
Domain Validation
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: SCSI device sda:
8888543 512-byte hdwr sectors (4551 MB)
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: sda: Write Protect is
off
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: SCSI device sda:
drive cache: write back w/ FUA
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: SCSI device sda:
8888543 512-byte hdwr sectors (4551 MB)
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: sda: Write Protect is
off
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: SCSI device sda:
drive cache: write back w/ FUA
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  sda: sda1
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached
scsi disk sda
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:   Vendor: iomega   
Model: jaz 1GB           Rev: J^77
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:   Type:  
Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision:
02
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:3:
Beginning Domain Validation
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:3: FAST-10
SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 15)
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:3: Domain
Validation skipping write tests
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:3: Ending
Domain Validation
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel: sd 0:0:3:0: Attached
scsi removable disk sdb
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:   Vendor: PIONEER  
Model: DVD-ROM DVD-303   Rev: 1.10
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM     
                       ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:5:
Beginning Domain Validation
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:5: FAST-20
SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 8)
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:5: Domain
Validation skipping write tests
Feb  5 13:04:10 bentledr kernel:  target0:0:5: Ending
Domain Validation

NOTE not showing as being attached but the hardware
browser shows it.

Any help with where to look for any more info is
welcome also what should I file this against as a bug.




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