[Gllug] How to manage scratched DVDs

[Jan Kokoska]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 09:39 +0000, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> Sometimes when I watch a DVD on my laptop (using mplayer), a combination
> of a scratched DVD and an old / intolerant DVD drive means that the
> whole thing stops working. What I can't figure out is how to kill
> mplayer, eject the DVD, and stop the stream of "sense error" messages.
> 
> The drive uses the ide-cd. Is there maybe a way to tell that to give up
> and reset? 

When "killall -9 mplayer" doesn't work anymore I yank off the drive. My
IBM TP allows for that repeatedly ;)

I, too, would be grateful for a higher-level approach if there is one.

Jan

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