Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:22:12 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix? Message-ID: <47AB6874.5000707@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90802071054q7307d3f3h46681cc4da1490b0@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90802071054q7307d3f3h46681cc4da1490b0@mail.gmail.com>
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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? > I get 100MB of the last GB file. Most annoying. I know you usually > want cp to fail if there's read errors, but this is one instance where > you'd like it to skip and keep going - I assume that's what my dvd > player does. These are not commercial disks, so I can't just go out > and buy a new one, and I was too stupid to make backups, so I have a > vested interest in a workaround. > > Thanks, > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It could still be hardware. I had similar symptoms with a recent new laptop. I had the DVD writer replaced under warranty with the same model and the engineer commented that it was a not uncommon problem, usually fixed by swapping the hardware. Chris
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