Device not ready - messages with YAMAHA CDRW8424S

[Andreas Brogle]

Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 16:18 schrieb Phillip Susi:

The firmware version is 1.0j. This is the latest firmware for that drive.

Can I disable hal for that drive only, as a workaround ?

> Sounds like the drive may have broken firmware.  Did you try upgrading
> it?  I'm not sure exactly which command hal is sending the drive to
> detect if there is media loaded, but seeing as how none of the other
> drives complain like that, my guess is this one is not returning the
> correct reply for "no media".
>
> Andreas Brogle wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > hald is printing that messages below to the active console continously.
> >
> > /var/log/messages:
> > Feb  7 10:16:48 a9 kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in
> > the drive.
> > Feb  7 10:17:19 a9 last message repeated 15 times
> >
> > The messages disappear if I load a cdrom in my SCSI CD-Rewriter YAMAHA
> > CDRW8424S or when killing hald.
> >
> > There some more devices connected to the same SCSI-Bus, but only with
> > CDRW8424S the problem exists.
> > None of that messages appear for Plextor PX-83Cx, Plextor PX-40TSI CDROMs
> > or Fujitsu M2513A MODs.

Andreas