The 03.01.06 at 11:47, Franklin Maurer wrote:
It happens with an audio cd, without an audio cd, with a windows data cd, and with a SuSE disk.
Ah... then, I would start to worry a bit :-}
Basically it happens every time I boot, but they function fine.
Well, if it works, then ignore it O:-)
It's the number of these messages i get, and the amount of space they take up that won't let me get over it. I'm not exaggerating by saying i get 50 of these when I boot the computer, and i tend to do that often.
Well, that is a nuissance. But don't complain too much, I once got several megabytes of error logs by the kernel, in something like an hour, with something similar. The kernel felt talkative, that's all ;-) I mean, if it works, then it should be ok.
Searching through my logs, i found that my ide-scsi cdrw has dma enabled. Could this be part of the problem?
Not really... well, you could disable it and see what happens.
I ask because in yast2 it lists the dma devices but only lists ide not the scsi enabled.
True.
Is there a command line way to turn this off for that drive? or do i have to remove the scsi from the kernel turn off dma for that drive and then add ide-scsi back?
No, if it is ide-scsi emulation you are using, for disabling dma just use "hdparm -d0 /dev/hdx", where x is the actual drive the ide-scsi emulates. It "normally" works.
I also checked man hdparm, it was mentioned in a different thread, there was an option for emptying the queue. It was -f sync and flush the buffer cache on exit. The error was about I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 68 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
But it is a different queue, I guess. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson