Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:02:02 +0200 | From | "Boris Petkov" <> | Subject | Re: CD tray closes spontaneously after opening it |
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Hi,
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Kay Sievers wrote: >> >> Does this also happen when you set: >> >> /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoclose >> >> to 0? >> > >> > I'll set that on boot using /etc/sysctl.conf and will report if I can >> > still reproduce with that setting. I've checked that the "normal" >> > value is 1. >> >> That will prevent the closing, when something tries to open the device >> in blocking mode. If that solves the issue, you should start looking >> which process tries to access your drive. > > Right. It happens with autoclose=0 too. > > Any suggestions for the next step? Maybe add some instrumentation in the > cdrom or ide-cd drivers?
I have a debugging infrastructure ready in ide-cd which is in Bart's tree, you could apply it ontop of current git, enable it and send dmesg so that we could see exactly what is going on:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/pata-2.6/patches/
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris
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