Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:22:48 -0400 From: Fish <fish@fish-mail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is My DVD Drive Failing, or Have I Mangled Something? Message-ID: <1065032567.681.22.camel@current>
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I'm running -CURRENT on a Dell Inspiron 8200, and have been for over a year now. Relatively recently (in the last few months) I've started having problems with the DVD drive in that I will sometimes have to remove/reinsert a disk, data, video, or audio, before it will read. Until very recently (the last few weeks) it would eventually read the disk though, and all was golden. Now, I will very rarely get it to read the TOC on an audio CD, but it will never rip, and I can't mount a data disk. When I try to pitch in an audio CD and access it, this is what I get... bash-2.05b$ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 info cdcontrol: getting toc header: Input/output error bash-2.05b$ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 status No current status info available No media catalog info available Left volume = 255, right volume = 255 bash-2.05b$ ls -al /dev/acd0 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 117, 0 Oct 1 08:49 /dev/acd0 su-2.05b# mount /cdrom/ cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error Dmesg information might be of some help here... bash-2.05b$ dmesg -a | grep acd acd0: DVDROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502> at ata0-slave UDMA33 acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> sensekey=MEDIUM ERROR error=0 The last line repeats many, many times. Does anyone know of any tests I can run, or any way I can work around this to determine if the drive has started failing, or if I've run into a legitimate bug in -CURRENT? I'm mailing here first because I'm not necessarily convinced this isn't a hardware issue yet. I can't install any other OS onto the system for testing either, unfortunately, as I'm a bit shy on hard disk space without any available spare drives. Please CC me on any responses, as I'm not subscribed to this particular list. Thanks very much, Fish
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