Device not ready - messages with YAMAHA CDRW8424S

[Andreas Brogle]

Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 02:43 schrieb David Zeuthen:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 11:33 +0100, Andreas Brogle wrote:

> > 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 kernel driver is broken and needs to be fixed to not print out this
> non-sense just because user space attempts to open the device
> periodically. And we do need to poll the device for media changes. Btw,
> when the large distributions started shipping hal, a number of drivers
> got fixed to not printk things like this. I guess your hardware is just
> rare.

Hmm, this sounds there is no hope for a fix in future.
Can I exclude a single device from hal, or exists another workaround for the 
problem ?



Andreas
email: Andreas.Brogle at freenet.de