Continuous Error Code in TTY consoles

[Larry Hartman]

On Saturday 11 November 2006 16:08, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:55:06 -0500
>
> Larry Hartman <larryhartman50 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > I am new to UBUNTU/KUBUNTU, have checked the forums for this code but did
> > not discover anyone with this issue.  When I switch from my virtual
> > screen that is running KDE/GNOME desktop to a console TTY, I receive the
> > following continuously running error code.
> >
> > HDC: error code: 0x70 sense_key: 0x20 asc: 0x30 ascq: 0x00
> >
> > The only thing I can determine is that HDC may refer to the CD/DVD drive.
> >  The drive appears to function properly as I tested it by playing a DVD
> > earlier.
> >
> > I have KUBUNTU 6.06 -386 installed on an HP dv8000 AMD64 ML37 laptop. 
> > Any help in isolating this code and troubleshooting would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Larry Hartman
>
> FWIW, hdc is the secundary master device on your box and prolly your DVD.
> I've seen those errors on dying drives and as well with DVD players when
> trying to read badly burnt or damaged discs.
>
> Either way, something is wrong whilst reading from that drive.

Interesting....I dont believe it is dying, the laptop is not a year old and 
the drive worked perfectly with MS Windows XP just last week.  Neither can it 
be a badly burnt or damaged disk, since the drive is empty.  Personally I am 
leaning toward a configuration file/setting of some sort.  I noticed on this 
last bootup that the error began at the hardware abstraction layer hald.  I 
am wondering if something is telling LINUX to try to read the drive despite 
the fact that nothing is in it.  I am at a loss to know where to begin 
looking for such a file.  Having said all of this you did confirm that it was 
as issue involving the CD/DVD drive--which brings me a quarter step closer to 
a solution.

Larry