From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 189EB679E6 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:42:17 +1000 (EST) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Tom Parker In-Reply-To: <429237EC.4010104@tevp.net> References: <429237EC.4010104@tevp.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:41:33 +1000 Message-Id: <1116891693.30513.3.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Reading DVDs on a Mac mini List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:07 +0200, Tom Parker wrote: > > The version of libdvdread in use is 0.9.4 (the Debian 0.9.4-5 > libdvdread3 package). > > hdparm settings for /dev/hdb (the DVD/CD-ROM drive): > > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > using_dma = 0 (off) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument > > hdparm -i says the drive is a "MATSHITACD-RW CW-8124". > > Any ideas? Because I'm all out of ideas, and I hope someone on here can > help. Does the debian package of libdvdread contains the CSS stuff ? Also, the lack of "using_dma" is annoying... It looks like our CD/DVD kernel driver is still dumb and still switches DMA off on any stupid error... Have you tried booting OS X and playing the DVD once ? Maybe the drive wants a zone to be set at least once, which MacOS does the first time you play a DVD Ben.