Subject: Re: Kernel Messages Using CDR/CD-ROM
To: Daniel Bolgheroni <dab__@uol.com.br>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/03/2003 23:30:06
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:

> On  0, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > This is harmless.
> > The cd driver is now trying to get a partition table from the CD, and
> > of course it can't get one, especially when the CD is blank. These errors
> > are because the driver tries to read a blank CD.

It's not just blank CD's, but audio CD's, too.

> I'm trying to eliminate these messages from appearing in console, so I commented this line in syslog.conf:
>
> #*.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit       /dev/console
>
> No effect.

They're kernel printf()'s, like the boot messages, and so don't go
through syslog(). They're evidently coming from the return value of
readdisklabel() in "sys/arch/i386/i386/disksubr.c".

Frederick