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Hello, 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 <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA <4>hda: Maxtor 4D080H4, ATA DISK drive <4>hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: CDD4851 CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <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 ---snip--- <4>hdc: no flushcache support <4>hdd: no flushcache support <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 mplayer poops out like this (Note: dvd not mounted - doesn't need to be, right?): $ mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd MPlayer 0.90pre8-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Willamette (Family: 8, Stepping: 10) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Reading /home/hp/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 106 video codecs Font /home/hp/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz) Input config file /home/hp/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds Setting up lirc support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Connection refused Failed opening lirc support! You won't be able to use your remote control Playing DVD title 1 Reading disc structure, please wait... libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. Can't open VMG info! Exiting... (End of file) This dvd doesn't even spin when attempting to run mplayer, so I think it's not the viewer's problem (since I can't mount/eject dvds in the first place). I'm really stumped as it appears (to me anyway) that the dvd is being set up properly by the kernel. I browsed the DVD-HOWTO, but it seems a tad out-of-date. Anyway, if anyone can steer me in the right direction, I'd be much obliged. Thanks for reading all this! Eric Pierce __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
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--- 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
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Yes! Thanks so much! Here's what I got... # hwinfo --cdrom ...SNIP... Device: "DVD-ROM DVD-116" Revision: "1.21" Driver: "ide-scsi" Device File: /dev/sr1 ...SNIP... I relinked the /dev/dvd to /dev/sr1, and that did the trick. Thanks so much for taking the time out to help out a stranger here! That first link got me to check 'hwinfo --cdrom' I could have sworn I used scsi emulation on a ide cd-r drive in the past, and the kernel boot-up message told me the new scsi location. I'll have to grep my boot.msg to see if I just missed it w/the dvd-rom (I don't think I did though). Thanks again and good luck with whatever you're doing. Eric Pierce
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
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