[ltp] Thinkpad 600 CDROM woes

[Tod Harter]

Well, in my experience ANY ide device that starts giving you that "DriveReady 
SeekComplete Error" stuff is in bad shape, though it can be caused by other 
problems. Sure sounds like bad hardware though. Kind of a classic set of 
symptoms for CD drives. Its POSSIBLE you could have a dirty lens, you could 
try cleaning it. 

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 16:38, you wrote:
> Perhaps someone can shed some light on my situation. My Thinkpad 600's
> CDROM drive appears to be on the verge of an untimely death. Whether audio
> or data CDs are inserted, most of the time the drive will spin up, sound
> like it is reading the disc, then abruptly stop, flashing its little yellow
> LED every second until the disc is removed. It will attempt this a few
> times, then ultimately fail. If by chance it does read an audio disc,
> playback is choppy and generally unlistenable. The kernel logs have
> messages like,
>
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x30
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel:   Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03)
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel:   (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57,
> ascq=0x00)
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel:   The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet
> command was:
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel:   "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> Nov  6 13:11:42 delirium kernel: cdrom: open failed.
>
> Anyone with similar experience? There were some reports with a bug in the
> kernel way back in the 2.2 series that may have caused some problems, but
> the bugs have since been fixed and I doubt this is a software problem.
>
> I know these drives are pretty cheap - $25 on ebay - but I wanted a second
> opinon before I buy one.
>
> I'm running kernel version 2.4.13 with the xfs patch and devfs. The machine
> has 196 MB of RAM. Curiously, it passes the CDROM self-test in the IBM
> BIOS.
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
> Marty Sanborn
>
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