Re: DVD issue
Alvin,
Thanx for the reply. I'ved already tried this suggested fix with no
successful results. I do not know if they are on the same cable,
because it's a laptop. I am curious as to why this only happens with
gnome.
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:15:27 -0800 (PST), Alvin Oga
<aoga@mail.linux-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, paul tsai wrote:
>
> > hey all,
> >
> > I'm running into an extremely weird issue with my dvd/cdrw drive on a
> > Toshiba M35 laptop. btw I'm running Sarge 2.6.8 custom kernel.
> > Whenever I pop in a dvd it issues this error on the terminal console
> >
> > hdc: packet command error: error=0x51
> > hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> > hdc: packet command error: error=0x51
> > and this repeats
>
> standard problem ...
>
> - if the hd and dvd is using the same cable.. you've got problems
>
> - usually just bad cable, bad mix of drive to the same cable, etc, etc
>
> - try turning off dma on the dvd port, lets say dvd is the /dev/hdc
> hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc
>
> c ya
> alvin
>
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