On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:35:01PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 22:52 +0100, Christophe Delage wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently bought a Mac Mini and quickly installed Debian Sarge on it. > > However, the kernel do not seem to be able to read DVDs. > > > > mini ~% uname -a > > Linux mini 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Sun Mar 20 14:09:41 CET 2005 ppc GNU/Linux > > mini ~% dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null > > dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error > > 3792+0 records in > > 3792+0 records out > > 1941504 bytes transferred in 1.427759 seconds (1359826 bytes/sec) > > > > And this shows up in /var/log/messages : > > > > Nov 1 22:39:51 localhost kernel: hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > Nov 1 22:39:51 localhost kernel: hdb: command error: error=0x54 > > Nov 1 22:39:51 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 4040 > > You aren't the only person to report problems with DVDs on recent Macs. > I'm not sure what's up. Wether it's simply that you don't have libdvdcss > installed to decrypt them, or there's something else dodgy going on with > those Apple drives... Guido and me once had this problem on our PowerBooks too. After playing a DVD under MacOSX they went away and we had the impression that MacOSX sets the country code on the DVD the first time a DVD is played. Once the drive is initialized it works also under Linux. But this not hard knowledge, just an observation. I don't really remember if we had this problems only when we tried to watch a video or if normal data DVDs lead to problems too. HTH, Wolfi > > Ben. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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