[Gllug] DVD and kernel messages

[Martin Stevens]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:46:40AM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:26, Martin Stevens wrote:
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I'm trying to get my DVD player working, 
> > 
> > It played a dvd for a while, with some odd screen errors,
> > 
> > But now it won't play dvd's and i get these message at the end of the
> > output when i type dmesg :
> > 
> > /dev/dvd  is linked to /dev/hdc
> > 
> Is there a hard drive on the same chain?  Some times an IDE hard drive
> that is throwing out errors can affect other items on the same chain /
> ribbon.  It might be that your dvd drive is toasted.
> 
> I have also had a SCSI card that was not properly terminated cause this
> to my IDE DVD drive.

Ah, could be it, there is a scsi raid adaptor on the motherboard, i'll
try disabling that and making the DVD the only drive on the IDE chain.

I'll let you know how t goes.

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