Is My Hard Drive Failing?

From: Barbara (jspain1244_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/18/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:36:42 -0500

Do these messages at boot time mean that my hard drives are bad or a CD
unit. I suspect the CD because it doesn't seem to initialize properly.

The server was put in an awkward - very hard to get to - and I am wondering
if I need to replace anything. Currently I use SSH to manage the server from
a workstation. Am I safe in assuming that these "DriveReady SeekComplete
Errors" are all tests for the CD readiness?

TIA,

Barbara

apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Adding Swap: 72252k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 59384k swap-space (priority -2)
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x30
ATAPI device hdc:
  Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03)
  (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
  The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was:
  "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x30
ATAPI device hdc:
  Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03)
  (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
  The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
  "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
cdrom: open failed.
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x30
ATAPI device hdc:
  Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03)
  (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
  The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
  "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x30
ATAPI device hdc:
  Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03)
  (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
  The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was:
  "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "

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