DMESG is not outputting anything, how can I fix it?
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DMESG is not outputting anything, how can I fix it?
hi guys, when I type dmesg to see what the kernel is outputtin during boot up, I get this message:
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
wooow whats is this???
your system working fine, yeah?
just like you have not hard drive to dmesg LOL :P
well well well... ehh
I suggest you to recompile your kernel with some optimization settings, maybe there's something wrong in it (like, you are loading SCSI HD and somewhat dmesg try to load it? I dunno, it's really the only idea I see).
It may be your CD-RW.
I say that because it was the most common device related to this issue.
I google'd your error message and the posts I found mentioned that a module may not be getting loaded.
Or a bug within a scsi driver, therefore, recompile your kernel.
Another post mentioned that the system was trying to mount the CD-ROM even though there is no CD in the drive.
Woa, yeah, the same error from that over 1 year old post I made, hahaha, thanks for the reminder, I did what Jeremy suggested on that other post, and it worked!
less /var/log/dmesg
does the trick.
I now think it's the emulation of the CD-RW.
Because in order for my CD-burning software to see my SCSI CD-RW, I need to also emulate the SCSI drive, eventhough it is already a scsi.
but anyway, that line above worked fine, thanks a lot guys!,
that one is truely a SCSI and the other one only appears to be SCSI.
Some software is dumb, and whether the hardware is SCSI or not SCSI it need the emulation set in the Kernel...why?, because that's the way it was programmed.
Sorry...
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