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From: john on 24 Jan 2008 09:23 I cannot read a dvd on my Slackware 12 system. CDROMs work ok. Here is what dmesg says, in part: Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: SONY DVD RW DRU-830A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 512KiB hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(66) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66) hdb: cache flushes supported hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Device cdrom points to hdc. I can hard link /dev/hdc to /dev/dvd also. I can actually burn an iso file on a dvd blank using cdrecord. I did this with slackware-current downloaded as a single iso. But I can't read it or boot from it. I don't have a device /dev/sr0. I can't play a regular video dvd via gxine. I am using dvd+ style media when I burn a data dvd such as the Slack dvd. When I try to mount a video dvd via mount /dev/cdrom I get "no medium found". When I try to mount one of my freshly burned copies of slackware- current I get "Can't read superblock" When I boot from same dvd the machine simply ignores the CD/DVD drive with no message. It is possible that the bios doesn't support DVD. How would I test for that? John Culleton P. S. My cpu is AMD Athlon 780 Mhz. Any hints?
From: Douglas Mayne on 24 Jan 2008 09:41 On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:23:07 -0800, john(a)wexfordpress.com wrote: <snip> > I cannot read a dvd on my Slackware 12 system. CDROMs work ok. <snip> > I can actually burn an iso file on a dvd blank using cdrecord. > Any hints? > Do have something against growisofs? AFAIK, that is the command to use for DVDs, not cdrecord. -- Douglas Mayne
From: Joerg Schilling on 24 Jan 2008 10:04 In article <e85cb0b9-8cea-4cd3-8289-8f9936abeaca(a)q21g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, john(a)wexfordpress.com <john(a)wexfordpress.com> wrote: >Device cdrom points to hdc. I can hard link /dev/hdc to /dev/dvd also. >I can actually burn an iso file on a dvd blank using cdrecord. I did >this with slackware-current downloaded as a single iso. But I can't >read it >or boot from it. Are you sure you used cdrecord? You did most likely use a broken fork instead of the useful original software. get a recent original from: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ compile and install cdrecord/readcd/cdda2wav suid root and things will work for you. -- EMail:joerg(a)schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js(a)cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
From: Joerg Schilling on 24 Jan 2008 10:11 In article <pan.2008.01.24.14.41.40.771538(a)sl12.localnet>, Douglas Mayne <doug(a)sl12.localnet> wrote: >Do have something against growisofs? AFAIK, that is the command to use >for DVDs, not cdrecord. cdrecord supports to write DVDs since February 1998. growisofs first appeared 2001/2002 and does not support to write CDs. Why use a different program for CDs and DVDs? You just need to take care not to use software that has been broken by Linux distributors ;-) -- EMail:joerg(a)schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js(a)cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
From: Petri Kaukasoina on 24 Jan 2008 10:29
Joerg Schilling <js(a)cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >Are you sure you used cdrecord? > >You did most likely use a broken fork instead of the useful original software. > >get a recent original from: > >ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > >compile and install cdrecord/readcd/cdda2wav suid root and things will work for >you. Slackware 12.0 delivers the original unpatched cdrtools version 2.01.01a23. (In slackware-current it's now version 2.01.01a36). But it's not installed suid root. |