FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> > I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the
> > external drive, but it's working just fine with the internal one.
> > It's really driving me nuts.
> 
> Maybe you have to change the drive region code (RPC 2). I had to do
> this a couple years ago with a laptop's internal drive. Either that or
> you need to find a patched firmware to make the drive region free
> (RPC 1).

Sadly, your programs don't work. Neither for the interal drive, nor for
the external one. No matter which media I have inserted:

May  4 21:09:43 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Vendor Specific Command. CDB: a4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0 
May  4 21:09:43 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
May  4 21:09:43 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
May  4 21:09:43 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
May  4 21:09:43 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
May  4 21:09:43 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error


May  4 21:10:22 roadrunner kernel: acd0: FAILURE - REPORT_KEY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 
May  4 21:10:22 roadrunner kernel: (cd1:ata1:0:0:0): Vendor Specific Command. CDB: a4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0 
May  4 21:10:22 roadrunner kernel: (cd1:ata1:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
May  4 21:10:22 roadrunner kernel: (cd1:ata1:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
May  4 21:10:22 roadrunner kernel: (cd1:ata1:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
May  4 21:10:22 roadrunner kernel: (cd1:ata1:0:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
May  4 21:10:22 roadrunner kernel: (cd1:ata1:0:0:0): Unretryable error

Try to mount an ordinary data DVD results in
May  4 21:13:04 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ TOC/PMA/ATIP {MMC Proposed}. CDB: 43 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 c 0 
May  4 21:13:04 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
May  4 21:13:04 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
May  4 21:13:04 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
May  4 21:13:04 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
May  4 21:13:04 roadrunner kernel: (cd0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error
May  4 21:13:04 roadrunner kernel: g_vfs_done():cd0[READ(offset=32768, length=2048)]error = 5


Ulrich Spoerlein
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