From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OBtLl-0007dn-Qa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:34:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACE31E08C6; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:33:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8884AE08C6 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:33:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AE01B4044 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:33:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.636 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.636 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.104, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pcwMkMn9ylNA for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C241B4030 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OBtKz-0005Dn-S0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 19:33:45 +0200 Received: from 64.122.56.22 ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 19:33:45 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 64.122.56.22 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 19:33:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: dvd playing problems Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100511164215.GA6285@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.56.22 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 9cabf523-fce7-4687-a00d-e65ca55e1c6f X-Archives-Hash: 0c36a32620afe68395858d3f1a9ee26a On 2010-05-11, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > when playing dvds the movie gets stopped from time to time > and restarts itsself after a short oeriod of idle some frames > after the position where it halted. > hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 } > hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 13053192 > Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 3263298 ... > Does this mean my drive is bad? The dvd itsself does not have any > visible scratches or something like that... It's either the drive or the disk. > Or is it possible, that something below the application layer > and above the hardware layer has problems? I doubt it, but it depends on what you mean by "the hardware layer". The drive is reporting errors when it is trying to read the disk. I suppose that could be due to buggy firmware in the optical drive (which technically isn't a hardware failure). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I once decorated my at apartment entirely in ten gmail.com foot salad forks!!