[ltp] T43 and libdvdcss/libdvdread

[honey]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:

> I'm seeing the same thing on my T43p (Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-822S).  DVD-Rs
> work fine, but none of the DVD-Videos will play.  I start seeing those
> errors immediately after inserting the DVD, so it's probably not an
> issue with libdvdcss/libdvdread.
>
> This is both with the SATA and IDE drivers.  In the latter case, the
> errors read:
>
>  kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 5092
>  kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>  kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 }
>  kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>
> Do you have the option of trying this in Windows?  I wonder if it's a
> hardware issue.  It could also be a DMA issue, but I thought the SATA
> driver should take care of that?

This might not be much help, but I frequently saw these on my T40's
Matshita drive, toiled away with possible kernel/software problems,
then ran the IBM diagnostics (from my *recovery partition which
I didn't delete*!) and the drive proved to be bad.  A swap under
warranty fixed it.

Honey