SuSE 8.1: Hardware Errors at Boot Up

DavidMD · 04-14-2003, 06:55 PM

Hello, everyone.

I finally got SuSE Linux Professional 8.1 booting and running after installing the 8.1 update to 8.0. (After I updated to 8.0, my system would not boot.)

I have a mysterious device; I cannot discern if it exists or not -- '/dev/hdd'.

At the end of this message is an excerpt of the output of 'dmesg'. (I apologize for the length, but there is no way to attach a file to a message.)

I am confused by the errors that occur in booting just before the login screen. I also do not understand why my USB Zip 250 drive is a SCSI device ('/dev/sda4'). I am also wondering if '/dev/hdd' and 'dev/sda4' could be the same device.

You can see in the excerpt below that there are repeated I/O errors for 'hdd' at startup (and a few for 'hdc', and I am not sure what this device is, either).

Can I change the system configuration to eliminate these boot errors? Also, I have read that SCSI emulation is required to use an IDE CD-RW drive. (I have a CD-RW and a DVD drive.) I feel as if 'ide-scsi' should not even be part of the system, but apparently it is -- and, if I have it enabled, why do I get the 'cdrom: open failed' error?

Thank you very much, in advance.

Cordially,

David
--
http://ddickerson.igc.org/

Code:

usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 234
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 66
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 68
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 70
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 72
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 74
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 76
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 78
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 66
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 68
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 70
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 72
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 74
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 76
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 78
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Unknown @ 0xe0000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized mga 3.0.2 20010321 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0xdc000000) is not aligned on a size(0x1800000) boundary
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 4
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 6
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.

jailbait · 04-14-2003, 08:25 PM

I run SuSE 8.1. I also get similar boot error messages about my CD-RW. They are annoying but harmless. If anybody knows how to get rid of them I would appreciate knowing, too. I expect them to go away when I upgrade to kernel 2.4.21 which is close to being released.

DavidMD · 04-15-2003, 10:11 AM

Hello, Steve.

In addition to the CD-RW errors, I am getting some confusing information (errors?) about my external USB Zip 250 drive.

I do hope that someone will have a suggestion about these errors.

Cordially,

David

Quote:

Originally posted by jailbait
I run SuSE 8.1. I also get similar boot error messages about my CD-RW. They are annoying but harmless. If anybody knows how to get rid of them I would appreciate knowing, too. I expect them to go away when I upgrade to kernel 2.4.21 which is close to being released.

brucehohl · 06-27-2003, 08:50 PM

For more info on these boot messages see this SuSE Support Data Base entry:

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ubrueck_xconsole.html