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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to read DVDs - what could be wrong?
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:28:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E41168.20503@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5CfSW-7Ki-23@gated-at.bofh.it>

Helge Hafting wrote:
> ATAPI device hda:
>   Error: Hardware error -- (Sense key=0x04)
>   Tracking servo failure -- (asc=0x09, ascq=0x01)
>   The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was:
>   "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "

That seems to me like a broken drive. It is possible for it to be unable 
to read DVDs but still read CDs, often these use different lasers.

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5CfSW-7Ki-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-02-04  2:28 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-02-03 21:01 Unable to read DVDs - what could be wrong? Alex Davis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-03 20:56 Alex Davis
2006-02-03 20:44 Helge Hafting
2006-02-03 20:57 ` Phillip Susi

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