CD errors

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:38:05AM +0800, John wrote:
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>>My U box generates lots (at least a screenful) of kernel  error messages 
>>when I open the CD drive (using its button) to insert a CD.
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>>Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block nn.
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>>nn varies.
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>Is there a CD in the drive at the time the errors are issued, or is it empty?
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It's empty. I quite forgot to mention that I was logged into gnome at 
the time, and I suspect its connected with gnome's watching for inserted 
CDs.


I only noticed it because I was at the vc at the time. Check your logs, 
there's a good change it happens to you and you never noticed;-)