From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 18:54:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8F816A417 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:54:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD7513C4FB for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:54:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id s42so1551741rnb.13 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:54:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=RM03+6cR5w8X9D2odt+pWWpbVI9Q6Ti6XwifJVxEhTc=; b=IBN7vXHCfoW8k0UAtOmJqTL3rZ5PyKPMau63SHkusFQt9e7QSXs/ANMe12Q8u0WeHz+3E94ci8yEUtqR8M0XDRPSs5zlk5nqk3aVIYQRgR1aWriDEjvWPUGPatcJ51ntaLwNVmxEUzW4Mmuozqp9qhi1y71EjrHE4Q3O7PdNifk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=wzKU/6Q57xaWKg+WxlXOEa7EW7foV3tFa6iaPUzaVVTFXHpp0O+KeGLCJ2BugEWwgTErB6LBuRnFa0eIt2zPxJLi8CcmTVtrKNhOEssbAve3XD8CE2hyAxHfzA4r6sBXHuKi55kkATNtkQS8JbUjE2dEa1HPZnWc4RCfVj2focY= Received: by 10.142.188.4 with SMTP id l4mr168660wff.92.1202410482997; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.194.10 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:54:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90802071054q7307d3f3h46681cc4da1490b0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:54:42 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "User Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: acf2e0af393c70f5 Subject: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stevefranks@ieee.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:54:45 -0000 I have a bunch of disks that will play fine in my laptop and TV, but not in my freebsd system with a new-ish NEC drive. Figured it was the drive, so I got a new pioneer, same issue - scratch somewhere that causes no hiccup on other players makes it tank. I can't even cp or rsync data off them, and these are only minor scratches. Is there anything tunable, or ways to keep rsync or cp going after an error? I get 100MB of the last GB file. Most annoying. I know you usually want cp to fail if there's read errors, but this is one instance where you'd like it to skip and keep going - I assume that's what my dvd player does. These are not commercial disks, so I can't just go out and buy a new one, and I was too stupid to make backups, so I have a vested interest in a workaround. Thanks, Steve