[NMLUG] Disk change?

[nmlug@swcp.com (Mike Starnes)]

Thanks for all the help on this. Haven't seen the problem in a while
now. I have two hard drives on ide0 and just a cd-rom drive on ide1.
Perhaps I have an intermittent problem with the cd-rom drive.

Ed Brown wrote:
> 
> Mike, try this:
> 
> dmesg -n 7 (need to be superuser)
> 
> This sets the level at which logging is done to the console. The "VFS:
> Disk change detected...." is a debug level message, lowest priority, level 7.
> "dmesg -n 7" sets kernel console logging to info level (6) or higher priority
> (the lower the number, the higher the priority). This is actually the default
> condition. From the klogd man page:
> 
>  Messages of priority level 7 are considered to be  'debug'
>        messages  and  will  thus not appear on the console.  ... This
>        prevents  'nuisance'  messages such as line printer out of
>        paper or disk change detected from cluttering the console.
> 
> This gets rid of the nuisance, but still doesn't address the source of the
> problem. The comment in the man page makes me wonder if this is a "normal", or
> typical condition. My zip drive and cdrom mount and work fine (hdd and hdc,
> respectively; both on ide1, the secondary ide controller.) If anybody
> feels like experimenting, I'd be curious to know if setting 'dmesg -n 8'
> results in any disk change messages.
> 
> Ed
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