From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-6smp i686) Description of problem: My file, /var/log/messages has many, many lines like: Oct 23 22:34:35 <my machinename> last message repeated 16 times Oct 23 22:34:03 <my machinename> kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. I am running GNOME and have two SCSI CDROM drives, I have an identical machine with only one SCSI CDROM drive that does not have this problem. The problem drive is a Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8824S , a CDROM writer. If a kept a CD in the drive the problem stopped. The solution was to remove the magicdev package. The problem is gone. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot Linux with magicdev 2. do not put a cdrom in the Yamaha SCSI drive 3. review /var/log/messages Actual Results: I see the log message that the device is not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Expected Results: No entry in the system logs when a disk is not in the cdrom. Additional info: From /var/log/messages Oct 23 22:34:35 <my machinename> last message repeated 16 times Oct 23 22:34:03 <my machinename> kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
(Basically, the problem is that your hardware is buggy and says that there is a disk in the drive when there isn't; no real solution other than to turn off automounting from the GNOME CD properties dialog.) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26055 ***