Re: Behaviour Change Needed in CD-ROM drivers

Erik Andersen (andersen@inconnect.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:48:06 -0600 (MDT)


On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Phil's Kernel Account wrote:

> [root@eiterra /mp3]# eject -c 2
> hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: packet command error: error=0x54
> ATAPI device hdd:
> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
> Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
> The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was:
> "1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> eject: open failed for `/dev/hdd': No medium found
> [root@eiterra /mp3]# cdp
> hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: packet command error: error=0x54
> ATAPI device hdd:
> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
> Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
> The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was:
> "1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> /dev/cdrom: No medium found >
> Why did this happen? I didn't have a disc in slot 1. I wanted to change to
> slot 2. Instead, the kernel decided it didn't want to because there was no
> media in slot 1. Should be a simple fix to allow changing when the slot
> you're changing FROM is empty. I'm using an NEC 4x4 ATAPI here. This
> doesn't happen on the Pioneer SCSI Changer.
>

I will plug in my NEC 251C 4x4 changer this weekend and try to see what
the problem is. I _thought_ I had enabled changing to empty slots about
a year ago, (you have to twiddle a bit to tell the drive not to complain
if I remember correctly).

Anyway, have faith that I will check this out and make it behave.

-Erik

the linux cdrom guy

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