CD tray keeps opening randomly

[Art Alexion]

James Gray wrote:

>On Tuesday 07 February 2006 06:41, Art Alexion wrote:
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>>This has gotten to the point where it is unusable.
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>>Any ideas?
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>I've seen this happen when the underlying bus (IDE/SCSI) is having hardware 
>problems and when the OS doesn't support the controller.
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I guess it could be an oncoming failure problem, but this only started
happening with breezy, never happened with hoary.  The first time I ran
k3b after dist upgrade, it asked me to set certain permissions as root
to insure better burning.  Well audio burning works fine, but at only
60% of the previous speed; but I haven't had a successful data burn
since.  Could this be related?

>Both scenarios will dump useful information to /var/log/messages and 
>may /var/log/kern.log.  "dmesg" may have some further information about 
>reported hardware etc during boot.
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Nothing.

>The basic problem might be that due to either incompatibility or hardware 
>fault, your CD drive is getting an "EJECT" message.  This can happen when the 
>controller throws garbage onto the bus.
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Could be.  But happens mostly when the drive should be idle.  Used to be
able to stop it by keeping the drive empty except when I was using it,
but now it ejects the empty tray, too.

>Usual disclaimers apply.  YYMV.
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>Good luck!
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>James
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