Re: /dev/dvd problem and question

From: Curt Howland (Howland_at_Priss.com)
Date: 07/02/04

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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:51:23 -0400

    More information. I tried to mount /cdrom with a DVD in the drive, and
    these showed up in dmesg:

    hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
    Error }
    hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
    cdrom: open failed.

    And a silly thing seems to be happening: The American DVD's are
    working, and some of the Japanese DVD's are working, but not all.
    Data DVD's are failing entirely.

    Can this be an effect of an advanced copy protection?

    Curt-

    On Thursday 01 July 2004 18:36, Curt Howland was heard to say:
    > Upgrading to 2.6.6 seems to have disconnected my DVD. xine says it
    > cannot decode DVD, and mplayer gives the following error:
    > -------------
    > Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
    > chars)
    > libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
    > libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
    > libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
    > Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
    > Cannot open file/device.
    > Exiting...
    > --------------
    > # ls -al /dev/dvd
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 17 13:38 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom0
    > # ls -al /dev/cdrom0
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 1 10:51 /dev/cdrom0 -> /dev/hdc
    > # ls -al /dev/hdc
    > brwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 22, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/hdc
    > --------------
    > This is up to date Sid, and it used to work. Any suggestions or
    > some other information y'all need? 

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