[PLUG] What exactly does this message mean?

Stafford A. Rau srau at rauhaus.org
Tue Jul 1 08:35:03 UTC 2003


* Bill <bill at coho.net> [030701 02:20]:
> >From the kernel log:
> 
> Jul  1 02:12:11 ns1 kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) 
> 
> can I expect ide1 to explode/disintegrate/transmogrify into a giant beetle 
> sometime soon?

ide1 is most likely your cdrom drive, and you switched disks.

It shouldn't explode anytime soon, but I did see some nice pictures of a
guy using a Dremel tool to exceed the structural integrity of a cd via
extreme rotational acceleration...

--Stafford




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