On Monday 30 December 2002 16:14, Franklin Maurer wrote:
I got my drive to work thanks to the archives and those of you who went through it before me, but now I see this in the xconsole, or the window under the login screen. It's also in the warn log...
Dec 30 11:04:12 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Dec 30 11:04:12 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64
<snip> similar messages </snip>
Any idea what's happening? Did I set the drive up wrong? I added ide-scsi(and cdrom, and ide-cd) to /etc/sysconfig/kernel, ran mkinitrd. Added hdd=ide-scsi(andhdc=ide-cd) to grub. Fixed the links, and now this message repeats about 50 - 75 times when i log in.
I have just set up a vanilla SuSE 8.1 distro - everything worked 'out of the box' with my CDRW detected and set up automatically. I also get these messages on boot up (although only about a dozen or so, not 50 - 75 of them!). I have no idea what causes them, but everything works fine, so I am ignoring them. I was hoping for a reply to your question as I am getting the same thing - but as there are none I thought I would just let you know that you are not the only one getting the same symptoms. Sorry I cannot be of any help! In my naivite I had assumed it is just to do with the fact that the CD-ROM is not a hard disk drive, and does not (during the boot) have a disk in. If you do work out what is going on do let us know! Yours -- Ray