On 2010-05-11, meino.cra...@gmx.de <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > when playing dvds the movie gets stopped from time to time > and restarts itsself after a short oeriod of idle some frames > after the position where it halted.
> hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 } > hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 13053192 > Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 3263298 ... > Does this mean my drive is bad? The dvd itsself does not have any > visible scratches or something like that... It's either the drive or the disk. > Or is it possible, that something below the application layer > and above the hardware layer has problems? I doubt it, but it depends on what you mean by "the hardware layer". The drive is reporting errors when it is trying to read the disk. I suppose that could be due to buggy firmware in the optical drive (which technically isn't a hardware failure). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I once decorated my at apartment entirely in ten gmail.com foot salad forks!!