Swapped CD-rom drive won't read data.

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Tue Nov 2 02:08:33 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:49:52PM +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:

> For various reasons I've had to change the CD drive in one of my Ubuntu 
> machines from the one that I used to install the OS.
> 
> I'm now trying to use a slightly older non-recording drive in the 
> computer.  It will play CD audio, but won't read data CDs.
> 
> If I try to read a data CD the whole system locks to the point of needing a 
> power-down, I can't change console or anything.
> 
> Hal via the device manager gui reports the correct drive model number.
> 
> I notice in dmesg there are two errors relating to hdc;
> 
> hdc:  set_drive_speed_status:  status=0x51  (DriveReady SeekComplete Error)
> hdc:  set_drive_speed_status:  error=0xb4
> 
> later I see;
> 
> hdc:  ATAPI 48X CDROM drive, 128Kb cache, DMA

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2773


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 - mdz




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