Message log filling up with kernel: sr0: CDROM not ready msg

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I am kind of new to Linux, I have Opensuse 11.1 installed.

When I view my message log (tail -f /var/log/messages) I see the following message appear about 3-5 times per second;

kernel: sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

This happens whenever there is not a disc in the drive, however; if I put a disc in the drive then the message stops and everything seems to operate normally… I get the KDE menu allowing me to select what I want to do depending on the content of the disc. I am able to open whatever content on the disc that I want to work with.

I would very much appreciate suggestions on how to suppress the messages if they are nothing to worry about or to fix whatever is causing the errors.

Thanks
Joe

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Do you have an entry in /etc/fstab for sr0 ?

If yes it should have attributes ‘noauto,user,ro’. Otherwise show what

cat /etc/fstab

says.

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Doesn’t look like I have an entry in there. Here are the results of the command:

#cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000340AS_5QJ0X5K4-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000340AS_5QJ0X5K4-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000340AS_5QJ0X5K4-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380013A_5MR5QVWV-part1 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask= 022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

Thanks for the quick response,

Joe