CDROM errors on RH8
Bob Hartung
rwhart at mchsi.com
Mon Sep 13 10:28:55 UTC 2004
Brian,
Power supplies and HD are hot swap.
CD is not hot swap. Anyway IBM has 3 yrs of on-site service. I call
about 10 AM CDT and they will be here by 1600 today to fix. This is as
good as hot swap in my book.
Bob
Brian McGrew wrote:
> You mean that that fancy IBM xServer isn't hot-swapable???
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew {brian at doubledimension.com || pacemakertaker at rock.com }
> ---
>
>>Failure is not an option; it is included with every Microsoft product.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob Hartung
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:25 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: CDROM errors on RH8
>
>
> Brian,
> Thanks. That is what I did not want to hear. I guess that I'll do a
> little PM with compressed air in the AM and if that does not work then
> I'll have to take it down tomorrow night and try to swap out for another
> CD-ROM device, if the IBM BIOS will allow that without squawking loudly
> :-), like when I tried to install a CD-RW device.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
> Brian McGrew wrote:
>
>>My first guess would be a bad CD-ROM drive.
>>
>>-brian
>>
>>Brian D. McGrew {brian at doubledimension.com || pacemakertaker at rock.com }
>>---
>>
>>
>>>Failure is not an option; it is included with every Microsoft product.
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob Hartung
>>Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:56 PM
>>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: CDROM errors on RH8
>>
>>
>>Hi all
>> I have a stable RH8 install on IBM xServer232. NO recent changes.
>>No evidence of outside tampering. I have suddenly seen the following
>>errors in response to the typed commands. I would note that the CD
>>itself is good and is iso9660 and can be read by several other Linux
>>installs (FC1, FC2, SuSE 8 & 9.1)
>>
>> /etc/fstab appears to have the correct settings.
>>
>>[root at rgeserv1 root]# dmesg | grep hda
>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0840-0x0847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>>hda: LTN486S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>>ide-scsi: hda: unsupported command in request queue (0)
>>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
>>
>>
>>[root at rgeserv1 root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>> or too many mounted file systems
>> (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
>> ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
>>
>>I also get this error if I type: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>> or
>> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom
>>
>>I am not sure where to start looking since the built in IBM diagnostics
>>don't demonstrate any errors that I can find. Can someone give me some
>>suggestions as to where to continue looking?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>
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