--- Eric Pierce
I'm having some difficultly getting my DVD-ROM working and I thought I'd check to see if anyone has any tips. I just installed the newest SuSE (8.1) on my desktop (first Linux to break-in this particular computer). It appears that the DVD is being detected and set-up properly (via boot-up kernel messages), but I'm unable to mount dvds (or cds) let alone watch them (I've only tried mplayer so far). Here's a snip of /var/log/boot.msg
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<4>hdd: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 ATAPI Model 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ... <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: PHILIPS Model: CDD4851 CD-R/RW Rev: C3.7 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4> Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-116 Rev: 1.21 <4> Type: CD-ROM
The CD-R is set to hdc and works fine, however, the DVD at hdd doesn't mount dvds, cds, and I cannot 'eject'.
$ eject /media/dvd eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error
Here's fstab: /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
And the device link $ ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2002-09-24 20:52 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdd
And when I attempt to mount: $ mount /media/dvd/ /dev/dvd: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
Hi Eric, please note that the DVD is on this list http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd.html meaning you cannot install from it. I think you installed from hdc anyway (being the master on secondary chanel), so no problems here. But in the future, if you change the order of the IDE devices... Second, try to see if somehow the dvd is read through a scsi emulation layer. If this is the case, instead of /dev/hdd the /dev/dvd should link to /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1, I don't know which. See this link for more info: http://seismo.ethz.ch/linux/xcdroast.html Cheers, Dan Laba ===== Proprietary software companies seek to improve their competitive position by locking users into their products -- that is, making them dependent on a particular data or file format __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com