[PLUG] What is causing a "Device not ready" error message.

[David Mandel]

My system has been working great, until ....

I have been playing around with usb thumbdrives, usb cammeras, music CDs, 
and I have been removing and adding hard drives.

This shouldn't be a problem, except SuSE 9.0 trys to automate things
(a bit like Microsoft does) and this can lead to problems.
At the moment, my /var/log/messages file is getting lots of 
messages like:

    Jun  7 12:09:13 sco302 kernel: Device not ready.  Make sure there is a  disc in the drive.
    Jun  7 12:09:44 sco302 last message repeated 12 times
    Jun  7 12:10:43 sco302 last message repeated 23 times
    Jun  7 12:11:44 sco302 last message repeated 24 times
    Jun  7 12:12:43 sco302 last message repeated 23 times
    Jun  7 12:13:45 sco302 last message repeated 24 times
    Jun  7 12:14:44 sco302 last message repeated 23 times
    Jun  7 12:15:43 sco302 last message repeated 23 times
    Jun  7 12:16:45 sco302 last message repeated 24 times
    Jun  7 12:17:44 sco302 last message repeated 23 times
    Jun  7 12:18:43 sco302 last message repeated 23 times
    Jun  7 12:19:44 sco302 last message repeated 24 times
    Jun  7 12:20:43 sco302 last message repeated 23 times
    Jun  7 12:21:45 sco302 last message repeated 24 times
    Jun  7 12:22:13 sco302 last message repeated 11 times

Unfortunately, nothing seems to give me a straight forward
indication of what drive is causing the problem.

Anyone have a quick idea of what might be wrong?


                                          Sincerely,
                                          David Mandel
                                          Chief Activist
                                          Portland Linux/Unix Group
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                                          Corvallis, Oregon 97333
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