[Techtalk] CD-ROM weirdness

[Patricia Fraser]

Hi all,

All of a sudden, my CD drive is refusing. I've done a bit of googling, 
and I can find other people with similar problems, but no solution (if 
in fact the drive isn't u/s). I haven't changed kernel version or 
installed anything or changed any settings...

Output of dmesg below; anyone got any ideas?

hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: irq timeout: error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0x0d
hdc: DMA disabled
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: irq timeout: error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0x0d
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: request sense failure: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
Error }
hdc: request sense failure: error=0x50LastFailedSense 0x05
hdc: request sense failure: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
Error }
hdc: request sense failure: error=0x50LastFailedSense 0x05
hdc: request sense failure: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
Error }
hdc: request sense failure: error=0x50LastFailedSense 0x05
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
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Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia
Wed Dec 15 22:40:40 EST 2004
GNU/Linux 1997-2004 #283226 counter.li.org
andromeda up 0 hour(s), 39 min, 42 sec
kernel 2.6.3-19mdk
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