[plug] mounting CD in DVD drive

[navarre at plug.linux.org.au]

Hello PLUG

I have a funny with my new DVD ROM drive acting as CD ROM drive under 
Linux.

Attempting to mount the drive as root (to get the error messages) I get:

Ladyhawke: ~ #mount /cdrom
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdc:
  Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
  Power on, reset or hardware reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
ATAPI device hdc:
  Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
  Power on, reset or hardware reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)


The system is Debian Potato 2.2.17 kernel. Was working fine using an ASUS 
36x ATAPI CD ROM drive, I changed this to the ASUS 8X DVD ROM drive not 
other changes in Linux.
The drive worked fine in Winblows, played a full length DVD movie, loaded 
program software under Windows. Any attempt to mount a CD in Linux 
results in the above error and no mounting. Several different CD disks 
tried including the one I installed under Windows.

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Secondary question - to create the console text above I ran the prompt as 
root, the error text scrolled off the screen, using shift page up I 
scrolled back the console buffer which I grabed using gpm, scrolled back 
and created a text file using ed added the text fro the gpm buffer into 
the new document, then suspended ed went back and grabed the rest of the 
error text, put ed in foreground pasted the secong gpm buffer closed the 
file and there I have it. Was there another way? I thing you can redirect 
stderr to a file yes/no?

TIA
Glen
navarre at plug.linux.org.au