Subject: Re: AHA 2940 U2W trouble
To: None <pmialon@free.fr>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 05/18/2000 12:33:04
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:23:02PM +0000, pmialon@free.fr wrote:
> I run a 1.4.X.. And I have lot of problem when using my cdrom :
> 
> ahc1: target 4 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0x10
> cd0(ahc1:4:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x08 03 46 f4 04 00   
> SENSE KEY:  Media Error
> INFO FIELD:  214772
> ASC/ASCQ:  L-EC Uncorrectable Error
> 
> ahc1: target 4 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0x10
> cd0(ahc1:4:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x08 03 46 f0 04 00
> SENSE KEY:  Hardware Error
> INFO FIELD:  214768
> 
> ASC/ASCQ:  Tracking Servo Failure
> ahc1: target 4 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0x10
> cd0(ahc1:4:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x08 03 46 f0 04 00
> SENSE KEY:  Media Error
> INFO FIELD:  214768							        
> ASC/ASCQ:  L-EC Uncorrectable Error
> 
> ahc1: target 4 synchronous at 20.0MHz,offset = 0x10
> cd0(ahc1:4:0):  Check Condition on CDB:0x08 03 46 f0 04 00
> SENSE KEY:  Media Error
> INFO FIELD:  214768
> ASC/ASCQ:  Record Not Found

[...]

> ahc1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
> ahc1: interrupting at irq 9
> ahc1: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs

You can't be running 1.4.x.. do you mean 1.4X? 1.4.x (i.e. 1.4.1, 1.4.2)
doesn't support this controller, but -current (of which 1.4X was one
incarnation) does.

Anyway, these kind of problems do not look like software problems to me.
I'm afraid your CD-ROM drive (or the CD in it) might be dying.

- Frank