I am aware of Bug 6360 and its resolution. I am getting stray errors with both IDE and SCSI drives under teh new installations: hdc: FX800S, ATAPI CDROM drive <snip> hdc: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 <snip> cdrom: open failed. VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=0x40 ATAPI device hdc: Error: Hardware error -- (Sense key=0x04) (vendor-specific error) -- (asc=0xb6, ascq=0x00) The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was: "1b 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 <snip> -and- Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 6.67 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 25501-XXX Rev: 5.AC Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: SANYO Model: CRD-254S Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 <snip> (Unfortunately I was unable to catch the error on this device, as it was during a shutdown, and could not be grabbed) But again, sense key errors with a reasonable quality drive. ... FYI --- I'll keep an eye out for more. (I'm getting like with 6.2 boxen as well, again with reasonable quality drives.)
Additional information -- Older CD's are unable to even mount CD's bigger than 640M -- the new RH 7.0 one disk sample will not mount on this same drive.
the problem with older drives being unable to mount CDs bigger than 640 meg is a limitation of the hardware. There are not many of these drives left around; our testing has shown that most every drive can handle a 650 megabyte ISO image. the sense key errors may be due to bad media, or scratches on a CD. They are not problems with eject per se, and usually can be safely ignored.