Guest tinks Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 I have been using linux for more than 3 years. I started with Mandrake 9 and now staying with Mandriva 2006. But i have few problems with the present distro on my HP NX6120 laptop. No other distro is showing such an ' unharmful error' (i think so) about my laptop DVD-R from sony. I am pasting the specified part of dmesg : hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } ide: failed opcode was: 0xec This error message is shown during system boot and shutdown. Sometimes a few CDs fails to open with the present DVD-R. Other than this, no visible problem so far. Is this is a major issue?. Is it reveals some thing wrong with my DVD drive?. Do i have to change the DVD-R?. If there is any way to correct the problem and also to turn off this message? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Welcome to the board No, it's not serious, it happens on all my laptops too. There is a service called laptop-mode, which is causing these errors, probably because of the lack of a CD in the drive or something. The service is to help the laptop to perform better, in the sense of extending the life of the battery. At least what I gather anyhow. I did disable this service, and found the errors stopped, but since it extends the life of the battery, i re-enabled it, and I just ignore the errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tinks Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 thank you very much 'ianw1974'. So... from now onwards... i have no worry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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