Re: DVD/CD reading issues with -CURRENT from 2004-06-27

Justin Hibbits wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I updated to -CURRENT a couple weeks ago, for various reasons, from 
> 5.2.1, but now DVD and CD reading is flaking out.  When trying to play 
> DVDs with mplayer, they stop after a random amount of time, probably 
> after reading a complete buffer.  With 'dd', trying to create iso 
> images of CDs, it stops after a random amount of data is copied.  
> Attached is the backtrace of a 'dd' run.
>
> Specs of the system:
>
> 5.2-CURRENT as of 2004-06-27
> Athlon XP 1800+
> ASUS A7V266-E/A motherboard (VIA KT-266 chipset)
>
> The 2 drives I tested are:
> iomega Zip-CD CD-RW drive (acd0)
> Toshiba DVD-ROM (acd1)
>
> Any more info required, just ask.
>
> Additional, I'm not on the list, so if you could CC me, that'd be 
> great, otherwise, I'll just check the archives.
>
> -Justin
>
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I had yesterday the same problems on FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT from 2004-07-09 
when converted DVD to MPEG4 using mencoder. To reach the purpose I used 
"cdcontrol -f /dev/acd1 reset", every time when mencoder stopped. :-(