Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Steffen Grunewald) | Subject | Re: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 843150 | Date | Wed, 29 May 1996 15:54:42 +0200 (MET DST) |
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"Herbert Rosmanith writes" |> |> |> hi, |> |> does the above message mean that the cdrom (the disk, not the drive) |> is defective ? |> I get a lot of this messages after dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/null: |> |> scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries. |> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. |> SCSI CD error : host 0 id 4 lun 0 return code = 18000002 |> Current error sr0b:00: sense key Medium Error |> Additional sense indicates Random positioning error |> CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 843136 |> scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries. |> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. |> SCSI CD error : host 0 id 4 lun 0 return code = 18000002 |> Current error sr0b:00: sense key Medium Error |> Additional sense indicates Random positioning error |> CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 843138 |> |> the bad thing is that I cannot ^C the process doing dd nor kill -9 it, |> so it's stuck somewhere in the kernel. or do you have to wait for |> some minutes ? (sync, df will hang from now on...) |> |> /herp |> |> |> There was a bug report in the 80's of 1.3 stating that (only) SCSI CDs were reporting a wrong capacity (a off-by-one error somewhere in sr.c). Thought it was corrected at least in the 90's ...
Linus ?
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