PhotoCD I/O error

Michael Schaale (schaale@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Thu, 20 May 1999 05:44:31 +0000


Hello everybody,

I have a big problem with a new PhotoCD. First of all my system
configuration (only the important parameters) :

Linux kernel 2.2.5 (SMP)
KDE 1.1
ASUS Dual Pentium board
On-board AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI Controller
CDROM Drive Toshiba XM-6201TA (SCSI)

Recently I asked my photolab to make a PhotoCD from my latest favorite
photos. Well, I received the CD and mounted it without problems. After
starting xpcd the overview window started to build up and then the
program crashed before completing the window.

An extract of /var/log/messages after this crash showed this :

May 18 05:40:51 pcms kernel: sr0: disc change detected.
May 18 05:40:51 pcms kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
sr(11,0)
May 18 05:41:14 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:14 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:14 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:14 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857348
May 18 05:41:24 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:24 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:24 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:24 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857352
May 18 05:41:36 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:36 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:36 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:36 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857356
May 18 05:41:46 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:46 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:46 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:46 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857360
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857364
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857368
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857372
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857376
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:47 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857380
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857384
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857388
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857392
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857396
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857400
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:48 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857396
May 18 05:41:49 pcms kernel: SCSI CD error : host 0 id 5 lun 0 return
code = 28000002
May 18 05:41:49 pcms kernel: extra data not valid Current error sr0b:00:
sense key Blank Check
May 18 05:41:49 pcms kernel: Additional sense indicates Illegal mode for
this track
May 18 05:41:49 pcms kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 857400

Next I tried to copy photo_cd/overview.pcd directly to the harddisc and
received an I/O error. The same I/O error poped-up while at least for
some files trying to copy the image files (*.pcd). I checked an older
PhotoCD and had no problems (!). Then I asked someone how runs W*dows
(for what reason he is running this buggy system, I do not know) to
check the new PhotoCD. Well, he could read everything from that CD.

The clear consequence from this is that the CD itself is o.k., and that
there is somewhere in the kernel a problem.

Is there anybody out there in the inner LINUX galaxy who can

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THANKS !!
Michael

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