dvd

[Richard M. Lotz]

Who manufactures the drive?  (I doub't creative makes their own drives,
likely from a hardware manufacture).  The CDROM howto states that SCSI
and ATAPI compliant DVD drives should read the iso9660 discs.  Given the 
in opperability of the drive in both windows and Linux I'd suspect the
drive.  I suggest you see if creative can get the drive working for you
under Win9x though before attempting replacement.

Note that to actually play DVDs in linux you are going to have to break
the law.  Check out opendvd.org for details.

To mount data DVDs you will need to add suport for the UDF fs.

-richard

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Richard Lotz				http://sidereus.net
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Bradley Bell wrote:

> Anybody out there have much experience with dvd?  I just got an IDE
> DVD drive (Creative SR8581) and simply swapped it with the CD-ROM drive I
> had in before.  Everything seems to go fine at bootup (BIOS and kernel
> recognize it correctly, but I can't get anything to mount.
> 
> I get identical results with both a dvd and an old-fashioned cdrom, and
> both before and after applying the DVD+IDE patch from
> http://www.kernel.dk/ to my 2.2.14 kernel:
> 
> smeagol:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> ATAPI device hdc:
>   Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
>   Incompatible medium installed -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x00)
>   The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
>   "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hdc: ATAPI reset complete
> ATAPI device hdc:
>   Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
>   Incompatible medium installed -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x00)
>   The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
>   "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> mount: No medium found
> 
> does this look like a bad drive, or is there something I missed?
> btw, it doesn't work in windows either, but I'm not so quick to blame the
> hardware in that case, if you know what I mean.
> 
> -brad
> 
>