Re: read cd's but not dvd's?

From: O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:51:31 +0100
Steve Franks wrote:
> Any potential configuration-realted reasons that I can mount cd's just
> fine in my dvd drive (atapi), but not data or movie dvd's (commercial
> and dvd+r's)? I get an 'unrecognized or drive empty' type error. Just
> a bad drive?  It makes the standard spin-up noises and some reading
> sounds after loading a dvd, and it's a fairly new drive.  The faq and
> man pages don't seem to suggest any configuration-realted differences
> between cd & dvd.  They are both iso9660 format, correct?
> 
> Steve
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Are you sure the drive is capable of handling DVDs physically, means: is 
it a DVD-drive?

I also had never success mounting several commercial cinema-scope DVDs 
due to an unrecognized non-ISO9660 format - maybe some kind of copy 
prevention.

Just some thoughts.

regards,
Oliver

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