On Tue, Feb 08 2000, Samuel M Umbach wrote:
> I just got my hands on a Toshiba DVD drive (model
> 1212 I believe) and experience no problems. This
> indicates that the drive is storing the disc
> length and failing to reset it for DVD's. I
> cannot find anyone else with this same drive under
> Linux, so I ask anyone who has an Acer DVP1040A or
> Pioneer 114 DVD-ROM drive to see if you get
> similar results to what I receive on my system.
> If so, I'd appreciate some help patching the cdrom
> driver to work around this problem (it works fine
> in windows). BTW here's the code that I've been
> using to read the drive, but it gets the job done:
>
> http://www2.iastate.edu/~sumbach/charcount.c
>
> This also allows one to test for the problem
> without applying the UDF or CDROM patches. You
> may need to be root to run the program. After
> compiling with gcc charcount.c -o charcount you
> can run it on any file (for my tests I used
> charcount /dev/cdrom). Please CC my e-mail address
> when replying.
Let me see the errors before I make a judgement.
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