From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 20:22:19 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 CA24016A421 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:22:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from smtp1.bethere.co.uk (smtp1.betherenow.co.uk [87.194.0.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8375213C469 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:22:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.71] (87-194-3-32.bethere.co.uk [87.194.3.32]) by smtp1.bethere.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B7C798130; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:22:13 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47AB6874.5000707@onetel.com> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:22:12 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stevefranks@ieee.org References: <539c60b90802071054q7307d3f3h46681cc4da1490b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90802071054q7307d3f3h46681cc4da1490b0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:22:19 -0000 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