Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:46:55 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > I think I'll now give up completely trying to understand > what is going on :-). I lied :-). I tried one more experiment which led to this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822948 When the drive in the USB enclosure

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > 139255322 us [ 180481085 ] This says that the run already lasted 180 seconds and the SCSI command to which this line belongs lasted 139 seconds. (Your patience is in good shape.) > INQUIRY There are only two of these commands in the course of normal drive examination by libburn. So

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
One more piece of mysterious info for the record: VLC on Windows 10 can play a DVD just fine with the USB drive (the exact same one that hangs on two different linux systems I've now tried). VLC on linux hangs just like everything else. I think I'll now give up completely trying to understand

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:29:46 +0200 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If this was a slim drive in a fancy flat USB box i'd ask whether it gets > its electrical power via USB cable. > There have been cases that drives fell unconscious while speeding up > the disc because the computer did not deliver stable

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:29 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hrmpf. strace reports "openat(2)" where libburn calls open(2). strace reports the name of the Linux system call, which is indeed openat. The open(2) and openat(2) functions (and open64(2) and openat64(2) on some systems) are C library

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:48:30 -0300 George N. White III wrote: > The bug may only appear for certain combinations of drive and USB > chipset. Check for firmware updates for the drive. Yep. I'm thinking it has something to do with the chipset. I believe I did read about some usb problem some

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > 139255322 us [ 180481085 ] This says that the run already lasted 180 seconds and the SCSI command to which this line belongs lasted 139 seconds. (Your patience is in good shape.) > INQUIRY There are only two of these commands in the course of normal drive examination by libburn. So

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 22:21, Tom Horsley wrote: > Anyone else experienced this: > > I have a nice modern LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray rewriter, and a nice modern > computer case with zero drive bays, so I got an OWC external drive > case with sata -> usb3 to hold the drive. > > Everything I've tried

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:33:38 +0200 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If /tmp/xorriso.log is long (one or two dozen KB) then send it to > my mail address directly. I will then report what it tells me. > If it is short, please post it here. It sat here for about three minutes till I got bored: zooty>

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Horsley wrote: > My current theory is that it has something to do with > the phase II region protection (which is supposed to be hardware > rather than software) That would be plausible. But letting the drive hang on open with the need for power-off seems to be a drastic reaction. >

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:29:01 +0200 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > That's not usual. I have a BH16NS40 in a USB box from DeLOCK. No problems > to open it with any medium. My current theory is that it has something to do with the phase II region protection (which is supposed to be hardware rather than

Re: Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Horsley wrote: > I have a nice modern LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray rewriter [...] > trying to rip a DVD [...] > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/sr0", O_RDONLY <-- never finishes till I unplug it That's not usual. I have a BH16NS40 in a USB box from DeLOCK. No problems to open it with any medium. In

Curious: Hang at open trying to rip dvd?

2020-04-08 Thread Tom Horsley
Anyone else experienced this: I have a nice modern LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray rewriter, and a nice modern computer case with zero drive bays, so I got an OWC external drive case with sata -> usb3 to hold the drive. Everything I've tried works like a champ on this drive except trying to rip a DVD. It