CDROM errors on RH8

[Bob Hartung]

Brian,
   Power supplies and HD are hot swap.
   CD is not hot swap.  Anyway IBM has 3 yrs of on-site service. I call 
about 10 AM CDT and they will be here by 1600 today to fix.  This is as 
good as hot swap in my book.

Bob

Brian McGrew wrote:
> You mean that that fancy IBM xServer isn't hot-swapable???
> 
> -brian
> 
> Brian D. McGrew {brian at doubledimension.com || pacemakertaker at rock.com }
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>>Failure is not an option; it is included with every Microsoft product.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob Hartung
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:25 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: CDROM errors on RH8
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> 
> Brian,
>    Thanks.  That is what I did not want to hear.  I guess that I'll do a 
> little PM with compressed air in the AM and if that does not work then 
> I'll have to take it down tomorrow night and try to swap out for another 
> CD-ROM device, if the IBM BIOS will allow that without squawking loudly 
> :-), like when I tried to install a CD-RW device.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> Brian McGrew wrote:
> 
>>My first guess would be a bad CD-ROM drive.
>>
>>-brian
>>
>>Brian D. McGrew {brian at doubledimension.com || pacemakertaker at rock.com }
>>---
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>>>Failure is not an option; it is included with every Microsoft product.
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob Hartung
>>Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:56 PM
>>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: CDROM errors on RH8
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>>
>>Hi all
>>   I have a stable RH8 install on IBM xServer232.  NO recent changes. 
>>No evidence of outside tampering.  I have suddenly seen the following 
>>errors in response to the typed commands.  I would note that the CD 
>>itself is good and is iso9660 and can be read by several other Linux 
>>installs (FC1, FC2, SuSE 8 & 9.1)
>>
>>   /etc/fstab appears to have the correct settings.
>>
>>[root at rgeserv1 root]# dmesg | grep hda
>>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0840-0x0847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>>hda: LTN486S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>>ide-scsi: hda: unsupported command in request queue (0)
>>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
>>
>>
>>[root at rgeserv1 root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>>        or too many mounted file systems
>>        (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
>>        ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
>>
>>I also get this error if I type: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>>    or
>>  mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom
>>
>>I am not sure where to start looking since the built in IBM diagnostics 
>>don't demonstrate any errors that I can find.  Can someone give me some 
>>suggestions as to where to continue looking?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>
>>Bob
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