Description of problem: When I put a blank media inside the dvd drive, it does not recognise the media. I was suspicious that this was due to broken drive or media problem, which is what I'm experiencing on my desktop which is running on Fedora 13, but now I'm sure it's kernel problem as I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 13 from Fedora 11 and drive that is working about an hour ago, now can't see blank media. Since this make dvd drive useless for writing, I set severity as high. Also I noted that it detects dvd-rw media. Though on my desktop burned image couldn't pass fedora install integrity test. It might be related to this same bug. Here's the dmesg output (various of this same error): Info fld=0x0 sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 And here's the hal info of the drive: [xx@arginine ~]$ lshal -u /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRAM_GSA_T20N udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRAM_GSA_T20N' block.device = '/dev/sr0' (string) block.is_volume = false (bool) block.major = 11 (0xb) (int) block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int) block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRAM_GSA_T20N' (string) info.addons = {'hald-addon-storage'} (string list) info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block', 'storage.cdrom'} (string list) info.category = 'storage' (string) info.interfaces = {'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable'} (string list) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27c4_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0' (string) info.product = 'DVDRAM GSA-T20N' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRAM_GSA_T20N' (string) info.vendor = 'HL-DT-ST' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0' (string) org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_argnames = {'extra_options', 'extra_options'} (string list) org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_execpaths = {'hal-storage-eject', 'hal-storage-closetray'} (string list) org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_names = {'Eject', 'CloseTray'} (string list) org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_signatures = {'as', 'as'} (string list) storage.automount_enabled_hint = true (bool) storage.bus = 'pci' (string) storage.cdrom.bd = false (bool) storage.cdrom.bdr = false (bool) storage.cdrom.bdre = false (bool) storage.cdrom.cdr = true (bool) storage.cdrom.cdrw = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvd = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdplusr = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdplusrdl = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdplusrw = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdplusrwdl = false (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdr = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdram = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdrdl = true (bool) storage.cdrom.dvdrw = true (bool) storage.cdrom.hddvd = false (bool) storage.cdrom.hddvdr = false (bool) storage.cdrom.hddvdrw = false (bool) storage.cdrom.mo = false (bool) storage.cdrom.mrw = true (bool) storage.cdrom.mrw_w = true (bool) storage.cdrom.read_speed = 11080 (0x2b48) (int) storage.cdrom.support_media_changed = true (bool) storage.cdrom.support_multisession = true (bool) storage.cdrom.write_speed = 11080 (0x2b48) (int) storage.cdrom.write_speeds = {'11080', '5540'} (string list) storage.drive_type = 'cdrom' (string) storage.firmware_version = 'WH01' (string) storage.hotpluggable = false (bool) storage.lun = 0 (0x0) (int) storage.media_check_enabled = true (bool) storage.model = 'DVDRAM GSA-T20N' (string) storage.no_partitions_hint = true (bool) storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string) storage.partitioning_scheme = '' (string) storage.removable = true (bool) storage.removable.media_available = true (bool) storage.removable.media_size = 2048 (0x800) (uint64) storage.removable.support_async_notification = false (bool) storage.requires_eject = true (bool) storage.size = 0 (0x0) (uint64) storage.vendor = 'HL-DT-ST' (string)
It can be the same problem as bug #643999, which is fixed in Fedora 14 and Rawhide at the moment, but not in Fedora 13 yet.
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