johannlo
2007-09-04, 07:47 AM CDT
Has anyone countered an issue where Vmware (workstation 6 for me, but it happened on workstation 5 as well) stops your optical drive from working properly. Doesn't mount (will spin up though), won't burn or will fail half-way through burning.
Worse, this seems intermittent / works for some CDs, not others (in particular burned CDs don't work well), or it works for a bit then stops working. Sometimes it gets 'stuck' and won't eject until I force a 'fake' mount command, whereupon I get an error (but it finally eject). Sometimes when it doesn't work I get messages like this in my log (but not always).
Sep 4 23:41:54 localhost hald: mounted /dev/scd0 on behalf of uid 500
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: sr0: rw=0, want=12656732, limit=913908
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3164182
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: sr0: rw=0, want=12656732, limit=913908
As soon as I exit the application, everything works fine. I don't even have to kill any vmware services.
I am running FC6 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6. Issue has persisted for months
Motherboard is Gigabyte P965-S3 (yes one of those Core2Duo ones with the Jmicron IDE controller that linux doesn't like very much). I had to work around the Jmicron issue by using a IDE to SATA converter and running the optical drive in SATA.
Sad to say, no issues in windoze LOL
Worse, this seems intermittent / works for some CDs, not others (in particular burned CDs don't work well), or it works for a bit then stops working. Sometimes it gets 'stuck' and won't eject until I force a 'fake' mount command, whereupon I get an error (but it finally eject). Sometimes when it doesn't work I get messages like this in my log (but not always).
Sep 4 23:41:54 localhost hald: mounted /dev/scd0 on behalf of uid 500
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: sr0: rw=0, want=12656732, limit=913908
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3164182
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 4 23:41:56 localhost kernel: sr0: rw=0, want=12656732, limit=913908
As soon as I exit the application, everything works fine. I don't even have to kill any vmware services.
I am running FC6 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6. Issue has persisted for months
Motherboard is Gigabyte P965-S3 (yes one of those Core2Duo ones with the Jmicron IDE controller that linux doesn't like very much). I had to work around the Jmicron issue by using a IDE to SATA converter and running the optical drive in SATA.
Sad to say, no issues in windoze LOL