Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> [...]
> Anyway, how can I tell cd(4) to give me more error output? How can I
> access the DVD at the bottom-most layer? Something line sending a Test
> Unit Ready command? Or checking if the drive recognizes an inserted
> medium?
"camcontrol tur" will do that.
Best
On Friday 04 May 2007 21:15:23 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> > > I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the
> > > external drive, but it's working just fine with the internal one.
> > > It's really dr
Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> > I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the
> > external drive, but it's working just fine with the internal one.
> > It's really driving me nuts.
>
> Maybe you have to change the drive region cod
On 5/4/07, Craig Boston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is a new drive, correct? It's possible that the firmware has never
been told what region it's in, and is refusing to read any protected
discs from outside its region (which would be all of them).
I already tried Windows and Linux, to chec
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:37:30AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> Unfortunately I don't know a way other than booting proprietary
> operating systems to see what region a drive is set to and/or change it.
> Not to say there isn't one, just that I don't know what it is.
As I read further down the thr
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:03:12AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> I don't know the code, but it looks like this Plextor and cd(4) don't
> get along when DVD copy protection is involved. I also read in the
> OpenBSD 4.1 release notes, that they made changes to their cd(4) to
> work better with reg
On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor
> PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs
> and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD.
>
> I can not even read a single sector
On 2007-May-04 16:51:05 +1000, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks. The only other reason I can see for removing acdX from these
>stats would be to save on some admittedly precious screen real estate.
Having cd0, acd0 and pass0 as three separate entries does strike me as
excessive. I th
Robert Gray wrote:
I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made
(note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to
just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was
read. If I first played a little of the DVD with mplayer, then
On 5/4/07, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why can I read and mount the DVD, but mplayer/xine
> are still unable to play the DVD? (It works fine on the internal, ATA
> attached, crappy NEC drive.)
No idea, sorry. Do you have umass, atapicam, and ata-usb all involved
here? If so, you've
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Scott Long wrote:
> Ian Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007, Scott Long wrote:
> >
> > > Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > PS: why is iostat(1) not working for acd(4) devices?
> > >
> > > Because acd doesn't make use of the standard kernel facilities that ma
Ian Smith wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Scott Long wrote:
> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
[..]
> > PS: why is iostat(1) not working for acd(4) devices?
>
> Because acd doesn't make use of the standard kernel facilities that make
> iostat work. It's a deliberate choice by the driver author.
Same
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Scott Long wrote:
> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
[..]
> > PS: why is iostat(1) not working for acd(4) devices?
>
> Because acd doesn't make use of the standard kernel facilities that make
> iostat work. It's a deliberate choice by the driver author.
Same for systat -vm of co
I've had similar experiences with DaVinci Code and Casino Royal.
Casino Royale is using something new. It managed to trip up Mac The
Ripper, which so far has had a 100% success rate for me.
In general the Sony infections imbed bad sectors on the disks in locations
that a DVD player parsing
>I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made
>(note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to
>just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was
>read. If I first played a little of the DVD with mplayer, then dd would
>work a
Sean C. Farley wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor
PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs
and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD.
I can not even read a s
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
Sean C. Farley wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made
(note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to
just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of
Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made
> (note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to
> just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was
> read. I
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor
PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs
and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD.
I can not even read a single sector from such
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor
PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs and
also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD.
I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the external
drive, but it's working
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