SATA DVDRW problem playing DVD's

ilowman · 01-22-2007, 08:40 AM

I just bought a LITE-ON SATA DVD rewriter SH-16A7S. The drive seems to be recognised OK and when mounted I can see the files on the DVD, but if I try and play a movie in Kaffeine I get an error telling me the source can't be read. When I use Konqueror to browse the CD, the files on the disc are shown properly in the mounted directory but I get errors in the dmesg. Here's the dmesg:

Code:

[17214917.592000] UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'GHOST_IN_THE_SHELL', timestamp 2003/08/01 05:23 (1000)
[17214934.476000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1776
[17214934.476000] printk: 70 messages suppressed.
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 444
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 445
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 446
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 447
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 448
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 449
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 450
[17214934.476000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 451
[17214934.700000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 296324
[17214934.700000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74081
[17214934.700000] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 74082
[17214935.388000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 6171140
[17214935.544000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 6171448
[17214935.932000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 8944380
[17214936.044000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 8944688
[17214936.332000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9121620
[17214936.496000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9121928
[17214936.852000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9568864
[17214937.016000] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9569172

and it's listed in fstab as:
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom1 auto nouser,noauto,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

I'm running Kubuntu Edgy but I get the same erro using the latest versions of Knoppix and Sabayon too.
It all works fine in windows so I guess the DVDRW and disc are ok.
Does anyone have any ideas how to get it to work? Maybe I should have stuck with IDE!

hansalfredche · 01-23-2007, 08:34 AM

Are you trying to watch a DVD movie? If you have an original disc it might be encrypted. Otherwise it's something wrong with Kaffeine, I had troubles with it too.

If your DVD is encrypted (copy protected) AND where you live breaking those copy protections with brute force is not illegal you can install libdvdcss.

ilowman · 01-23-2007, 09:04 AM

I should have mentioned I also have an IDE DVD/CDwriter combo and that plays the dvd ok. So I think the disc isn't encrypted and Kaffeine is working ok. It's just the SATA DVD writer having problems.

hansalfredche · 01-23-2007, 09:07 AM

I'm not sure, but I think Kaffeine can play only from one drive. At least you can specify only one DVD device ...