Is the disc you are reading country coded? (i.e. video?) If so, and the
drive is rpc-2 and the country code is not set, you can get read problems
when it talks to the verbotten sections of the disc.
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Vincent Meyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently running a Gateway Solo 9100 laptop with a Matshita SR-8171, and
> I'm currently haveing problems reading DVD data with it.
>
> In an earlier version of Mandrake (7.2? don't remember) I was able to read
> the datafiles from the drive, and attempt to play them with linux based DVD
> players. I didn't get too far at the time because of X problems, but the
> files would read.
>
> Now I'm running the Cooker version of Mandrake, with the 2.4.5-1 kernel. I
> can put a DVD in the drive, and get a directory from it, however I can NOT
> read any of the data files off the drive - I get Input/output errors. Plain
> CD's will read OK.
>
> fstab entry for the drive is:
>
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>
> which is how it was set up by the installer. Anyway, the drive works OK in
> windows.
>
> Thanks, in advance, for any help
>
> V.
>
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