19 Nov 2008 (Wed)

22:22:29 # Life Macbook dmesg. I've got a new macbook (MacBook 4,1). dmesg is noisy, something is wrong. It's telling me it's having something wrong with /dev/hda several times a second.

[10630.374297] hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
[10630.374306] hda: status error: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[10630.374309] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[10630.374315] hda: drive not ready for command
	

I received several suggestions. /dev/hda is the CDROM drive. HAL seems to be polling the CDROM drive. I kind of know the drive is not ready because nothing is loaded yet. HAL seems to be polling the drive like this. Hmm...

memo: dmidecode tells me this is MacBook4,1.

Handle 0x000F, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
        Product Name: MacBook4,1