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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: Impossible to read files from a CD-Rom
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08 2003, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> On Mon 18 aug 2003 18:35:22 GMT, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>> > I'm using a vanila linux-2.6.0-test3. When I try to use a CD-Rom,
>> > the mount is successful, so are the calls to ls. However, as soon
>> > as I try to read a file, I get a lot of messages such as :

[...]

>> We dug a little bit this Monday with Sebastien, and found out some
>> troubles: the call to set_capacity at the end of cdrom_read_toc()
>> writes a strange value, which is not always the same, even for the
>> same reinserted CD-ROM, seemingly because it came from
>> cdrom_get_last_written():

[...]

> I'd be more interested in fixing the real bug: why does your drive
> return zero length, and only sporadically?

This sounds somewhat like a problem I have playing DVD-R discs on one
DVD drive (Pioneer slot-loader), using Xine and the RAW device.

Basically, for some discs, the raw device cannot read any block, as the
capacity of the disc is reported as zero blocks.

I don't have trouble accessing the content on any other machine, though,
and can access the files through a mounted filesystem.

/proc/ide/hdc/capacity contains zero in these cases.

Occasionally, for a disc that does this, I get a valid (looking) size,
but not very often -- one time in twenty, at most.

I am happy to work on debugging this, if there is anything that can be
done to help identify the problem.

This only seems to occur with DVD-R discs, and without any predictable
pattern.

Daniel

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