From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 11:28:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED81716A507 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inception.quiecom.com (inception.quiecom.com [216.127.82.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B76243FD7 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fish@fish-mail.com) X-ClientAddr: 208.44.60.32 Received: from [10.1.132.30] (internet-user.jwt.com [208.44.60.32]) (authenticated) by inception.quiecom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h91IGw224090 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:16:58 -0400 From: Fish To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1065032567.681.22.camel@current> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:22:48 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (timed out) Subject: Is My DVD Drive Failing, or Have I Mangled Something? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:28:38 -0000 I'm running -CURRENT on a Dell Inspiron 8200, and have been for over a year now. Relatively recently (in the last few months) I've started having problems with the DVD drive in that I will sometimes have to remove/reinsert a disk, data, video, or audio, before it will read. Until very recently (the last few weeks) it would eventually read the disk though, and all was golden. Now, I will very rarely get it to read the TOC on an audio CD, but it will never rip, and I can't mount a data disk. When I try to pitch in an audio CD and access it, this is what I get... bash-2.05b$ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 info cdcontrol: getting toc header: Input/output error bash-2.05b$ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 status No current status info available No media catalog info available Left volume = 255, right volume = 255 bash-2.05b$ ls -al /dev/acd0 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 117, 0 Oct 1 08:49 /dev/acd0 su-2.05b# mount /cdrom/ cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error Dmesg information might be of some help here... bash-2.05b$ dmesg -a | grep acd acd0: DVDROM at ata0-slave UDMA33 acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY status=51 sensekey=MEDIUM ERROR error=0 The last line repeats many, many times. Does anyone know of any tests I can run, or any way I can work around this to determine if the drive has started failing, or if I've run into a legitimate bug in -CURRENT? I'm mailing here first because I'm not necessarily convinced this isn't a hardware issue yet. I can't install any other OS onto the system for testing either, unfortunately, as I'm a bit shy on hard disk space without any available spare drives. Please CC me on any responses, as I'm not subscribed to this particular list. Thanks very much, Fish