CD burner/device driver problems

[cj]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> 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
>
>   
this is just my opinion

NECs arent really my favorite, i have one in my machine and it just 
sucks. My favorites have alway been Acer. they have lasted the longest 
with me. I had an acer from 1996 and it died in 2006. it was a 2 speed 
burner and a 4 speed reader. Wasnt exactly all that great speed wise, 
but it showed that acer lasts very very long

--cj