CD burner/device driver problems

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On 4/9/07, Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 2 CD burners on my computer. One is a
> 'LITE-ON ' 'DVDRW SOHW-1693S' 'KS02' Removable CD-ROM
> and the other is a
> 'TSSTcorp' 'CD-R/RW TS-H292A' 'TS02' Removable CD-ROM
> The lite-on is a DVD burner and the TSST is only for reading and writing
> CD's. I will note here that the lite-on DVD burner works with no trouble
> at this point. However the TSST is giving me major problems.
>
> This seems to have started after Friday's kernel update, when my system
> finally switched to the libata device drivers and naming conventions. So
> now my hard disc is /dev/sda and my CD/DVD burners are /dev/scd0
> (lite-on) and /dev/scd1 (TSST).
>
> Now whenever I put a CD in the TSST burner, nothing happens for about 45
> seconds and then the PC reboots suddenly, (shades of Windows XP). I also
> have the same problem if I try to blank or burn a CD in this burner.
> During any of these attempts I get the following errors printed to the
> console, but only if I happen to be in a text console rather than
> gnome-terminal:
>
> [  170.208000] ata6.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
> frozen
> [  170.208000] ata6.01: (BMDMA stat 0x65)
> [  170.208000] ata6.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
> cdb 0xac data 65536 in
> [  170.540000] ata6.01: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
>
> [  205.596000] ata6: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
> [  207.432000] ata6.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
> frozen
> [  207.432000] ata6.01: (BMDMA stat 0x65)
> [  207.432000] ata6.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
> cdb 0xac data 65536 in
> [  207.764000] ata6.01: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
> [  242.788000] ata6: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
>
> Is this a driver issue or is my drive ready for the trash pile? I should
> note that I didn't notice this problem until Saturday, but I rarely use
> this drive, so it may have died before I ever noticed a problem.

look here: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/6931

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