Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 18:15:19 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Subject: Re: read cd's but not dvd's? Message-ID: <200611041815.26099.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90611040831l3101a720i6cb87ee1cb8272ad@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Saturday 04 November 2006 17:31, Steve Franks wrote: > Any potential configuration-realted reasons that I can mount cd's just > fine in my dvd drive (atapi), but not data or movie dvd's (commercial > and dvd+r's)? I get an 'unrecognized or drive empty' type error. Just > a bad drive? It makes the standard spin-up noises and some reading > sounds after loading a dvd, and it's a fairly new drive. The faq and > man pages don't seem to suggest any configuration-realted differences > between cd & dvd. They are both iso9660 format, correct? Try if you can read from the disc "dd if=/dev/acd0 of=somefile bs=1m count=1" and check the resulting dump with file(1). e.g.: # file somefile somefile: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM ' # hd somefile | head 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00008000 01 43 44 30 30 31 01 00 46 72 65 65 42 53 44 20 |.CD001..FreeBSD | ... -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFTMquXyyEoT62BG0RAoqPAJ9V4rSDIlev66w2lXTluYbk4/SMagCaAon8 I215VbLYbZJqkTU7nNrjT94= =xhlY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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