Re: Mac mini, I/O Error on DVD read
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...
Ben.
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