Well, I have done lots of Googling myself for the last few months. Most
post started ok, but has no solution to it. Some post has no reply. I
have tried all sorts of thing, I have also libdvdcss, but nothing
worked (for all types of DVD). I have a feeling it is a faulty drive.
Is there a way to prove it is the drive that is faulty? I am quite new
to Debian, so any help will be appreciated.
Larinia
David Pastern wrote:
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 08:29 +1000, larinia wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Please help me. I have debian installed on my laptop, the unstable
version. I have been trying to get xine working for a long time, but I
never managed. My machine is voyage 64 3200+ A list from Evesham.
The following is the output from dmesg:
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Incompatible medium installed -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was:
"25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Does anyone know what is wrong with xine, or is it my machine.
Thanks.
Larinia
Without wanting to appear rude, a bit of research is a good idea! I
found a few links immediately courtesy of google that talk a bit about
it. Firstly the google search link:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Incompatible
+medium+installed+--+%28asc%3D0x30%2C+ascq%3D0x00%29&btnG=Google
+Search&meta=
and these are some of the more interesting hits:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=64388
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-50479.html
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-August/msg00170.html
http://staff.washington.edu/hornung/linux/archive/html/msg01168.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=353749
A few questions, do other DVDs work in this drive? Do the DVDs in
question work in a known working DVD drive? What is the output of
lspci? You could try updating the firmware on the drive itself, but my
money is on the bet that it's a piece of faulty hardware. Linux is far
less tolerant of faulty hardware than Windows I might add (at least from
my experience). I'd say that it's not a kde, or kdelib4 issue.
Definitely not. It could be a kernel issue, but I honestly doubt it.
An anecdote from my experience. I had an older Pioneer DVD-120s slot
dvd rom drive. Worked fine for 3 or 4 months. Then odd things started
happening. Couldn't play DVDs. Xine, mplayer, ogle, vlc all would
hang. Checked permissions, rebuilt the device node, nothing helped. In
the end, I was doing some beta testing for Libranet, and the beta DVD
would fail to boot properly. Since I had a new LG dvd burner as well, I
just booted from that, and the disk worked a charm. A note that audio
CDs would not play via kscd, but would work via xmms. Audio cable etc,
was fine. Swapped sound card, same issue. In the end, I noticed errors
in /var/log/messages, saying seek drive error. That was that, I got a
new LG dvd drive, replaced the crappy Pioneer drive and all worked well
ever since. My conclusion: faulty drive. My gut instinct (and some
research on this), tells me it's a faulty drive.
Hope this helps,
Dave
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