Strange Drive Read

[Mark Knecht]

Brad,
   I had the same problem on a Windows NT machine a couple of years
ago. The CD drive itself had gone bad. If I completely powered down it
would be OK for about a day and then it would start doing it again. I
would suggest just powering off and pulling the EIDE cable from the CD
drive. If it clears up then take the opportunity to go buy a new
DVD+-RW drive. ;-)

- Mark

On 5/20/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> My machine is going nuts -going to a command line prompt (root) I
> see the following
> 
> hdh:ATAPI reset timedout, status=0X80 ide3: reset, success
> hdh: status timedout;status= 0X80 {busy}
> hdh:drive not ready for command
> scsi:aborting command timed out.....
> 
> over and over again
> 
> Any idea?  I've rebooted and it starts doing it again.  My CD
> writer has a steady orange light on - I believe the drive is
> empty, I need to shut down and see if I can open it (there isn't
> a place to put a paper clip in to force an eject.
> 
> HELP, thanks
> 
> Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> 
> There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
> understand binary and those that don't.
> 
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