Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Apr 1999 20:53:01 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: CDROM ioctl errors in 2.0.36 |
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On Thu, Apr 01 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Here is one example: > > Mar 30 21:31:39 red kernel: sr_photocd: ioctl error (TOSHIBA #1): 0x28000000 > Mar 30 21:32:12 red last message repeated 26 times > Mar 30 21:33:16 red last message repeated 56 times > Mar 30 21:34:17 red last message repeated 48 times > Mar 30 21:35:18 red last message repeated 34 times > Mar 30 21:36:19 red last message repeated 30 times > Mar 30 21:37:22 red last message repeated 32 times > Mar 30 21:38:26 red last message repeated 32 times > Mar 30 21:39:30 red last message repeated 32 times > Mar 30 21:40:34 red last message repeated 32 times > Mar 30 21:41:33 red last message repeated 31 times > Mar 30 21:42:33 red last message repeated 30 times > Mar 30 21:43:33 red last message repeated 30 times > > > This log, kept going on with "last message repeated" entries for > a couple pages. It does it throughout my syslog quite a bit. It > is incredibly annoying getting stupid cdrom message displayed on > my console if they are just irrelevant warnings of some bad cdrom > or something, but if it is a legitimate driver bug, or some other > bug, then I can see good reason for it being logged and dumped on > the console, and I also hope that it can/will be fixed. > > As a temporary measure, can you send me a patch to remove the > messages or dump them to /dev/null? It is really annoying...
I've attached such a patch. Seems only SCSI_MAN_TOSHIBA yags about this, NEC, SONY, PIONEER, etc ignores it.
> There are other cdrom errors that appear from time to time. They > just look like warnings to me, basically saying that my cdrom > sucks. ;o)
Maybe not, I've crossposted to linux-scsi. Doug, is your sg driver available for 2.0 :)
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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