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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