Second cd-rom drive locks system!

[Tashiro]

Hey I need some help,

My 2 cd drives are both from LG. The GRC-8523B (52speed cd-rom) and
the HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B (dvd-ram rw).

My mobo has 2 e-ide connectors, on the first is my hdd (alone). On the
second the ide cabel goes first in the dvd-ram drive (master) and then
in the cd-rom drive (slave).

The dvd-ram drive works great, reads dvd's etc. But if I mount the cd-rom
drive with Disk Management the utility froze. I tried ejecting it by pushing the
button on the drive, and I couldn't figure out to do it at the commandline.

When trying to reboot I got this message:

hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { busy }
hdd: irq timeout: error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0xd0
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1386000

So I turn the system off cold.

How can I eject (maybe --force) a cd-rom drive at the commandline?
Must I run a utility (scandisk in windows) for repairing my filesystem?
How do I get my cd-rom drive working?

All help is appreciated, Tashiro

[imdeemvp]

what happens when you issue the command: umount /mnt/cdrom ?

[Tashiro]

It did even mount this time! And could be opened be pushing the button on the drive.
So I inserted a audio cd in the dvd-ram drive(master), and began playing.

2 seconds later the led of the cdrom drive (slave) went on. Can't eject it now by
pushing the button on the drive. Oh the led just turned off when I am written this,
and making a sound like uhh zzzzzzzzzz like if it is searching or spinning.

When I do a: umount /mnt/cdrom1

umount: /mnt/cdrom1 is not mounted (according to mtab)

Tashiro

[imdeemvp]

can you post you fstab

[Tashiro]

This is my fstab without any cdroms inserted:

/dev/hda2               /                       reiserfs defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda3               /data                   reiserfs defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Tashiro

[imdeemvp]

i dont see anything wrong with it....except the floppy line should be like this:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

i dont know why you have [code] at the end.

[Tashiro]

LOL i tried to make a box with the input in it. But it didn't work.

It locks when I put a data cdrom in the dvd-ram drive (master)
and audio in cd-rom drive(slave). The led is on too.

The cdplayer (gnome-cd) has regonized the cd as "get in The Van"
"Henry Rollins" while the 2nd cd of the album "All eyez on me" "2pac"
is inserted. Btw it is not playable, gnome-cd is loading.

Tashiro

the "[code]" was a typo. the begining "[code/]" should be "[code]" and the last "[/code]"
post you /etc/modprobe.conf

[Tashiro]

Here is my /etc/modprob.conf:

alias eth0 3c59x
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias char-major-195* nvidia

Tashiro

[Tashiro]

Ah it is loaded. If I push the play button gnome-cd gives me a disc error. And I can eject the cdrom now
by pushing the button on the drive. BTW it is in the GRC-8523B (52speed cd-rom) slave, cdrom1.

If I reverse it (put the audiocd in dvd-ram drive), I have audio. And put the data disc in the
GRC-8523B (52speed cd-rom) slave, cdrom1.

When I do mount /dev/cdrom1

The GRC-8523B (52speed cd-rom) slave, cdrom1 keeps loading, led is on.

Tashiro

[Tashiro]

Just an update after 18 minutes:

GRC-8523B (52speed cd-rom) slave, cdrom1 => still loading data cdrom, led on.

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B =>still playing audio but can't access
(dvd-ram rw) master, cdrom gnome-cd to skip thru the tracks
or stop playback.


Damn is there a confict or something,
suggestions anybody?

Tashiro

[tashirosgt]

How do you have the jumpers set on your two drives?

[Tashiro]

GRC-8523B (52speed cd-rom) cdrom1 =slave
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B cdrom =master

Tashiro

[tashirosgt]

Someone (other than me!) might be able to tell something about conflicts from your /proc/interrupts file, so I suggest you post that. Also, can you find the sections of /var/log/dmesg that show the cd drives being detected?

[Tashiro]

My /proc/interrupts:

          CPU0       
  0:     351644          XT-PIC  timer
  1:        162          XT-PIC  i8042
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  3:        156          XT-PIC  EMU10K1
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:        698          XT-PIC  acpi, eth0
 10:          0          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd
 11:      26083          XT-PIC  nvidia
 12:      16642          XT-PIC  i8042
 14:      22750          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:       2051          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0 
ERR:          0