From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 18:59:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C4316A417 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:59:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D641413C457 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:59:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay13.apple.com (relay13.apple.com [17.128.113.29]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9B6216CF67; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:59:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay13.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 82BA428083; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:59:38 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 1180711d-9bbeabb000001e9b-fc-47ab551a2430 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) by relay13.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 6952028082; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:59:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <734C50DA-8D58-4D17-B182-31C2EB2CB485@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: stevefranks@ieee.org In-Reply-To: <539c60b90802071054q7307d3f3h46681cc4da1490b0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:59:37 -0800 References: <539c60b90802071054q7307d3f3h46681cc4da1490b0@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:59:39 -0000 On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Steve Franks wrote: > I have a bunch of disks that will play fine in my laptop and TV, but > not in my freebsd system with a new-ish NEC drive. Figured it was the > drive, so I got a new pioneer, same issue - scratch somewhere that > causes no hiccup on other players makes it tank. I can't even cp or > rsync data off them, and these are only minor scratches. Is there > anything tunable, or ways to keep rsync or cp going after an error? Maybe try using dd conv=noerror to get a copy onto a hard drive or another disk? -- -Chuck