Linux-Hardware Digest #508, Volume #14 Wed, 21 Mar 01 07:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Compaq Presario 1610 laptop and the on-board sound (Brent Willcox)
Re: Sound card config problems... (Christian Garms)
Re: Kt7 133A with hpt370 ("Marco Mangiante")
Symbios (LSI) 1010 Ultra160 SCSI ok with Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help!!! (Trevor Hemsley)
Serial over TCP/IP Tunneling ("Timo Hummel")
Re: SCSI Drive clicks every few hours... (Dietmar =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herrend=F6rfer?=)
Disk read errors (Howard Schultens)
creative vibra 128 ("gonenc onay")
Re: SB Live! Value PCI (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Aparicio Patino)
Re: SB Live! Value PCI ("G�rald Valentin")
Onstream S-50 (Fleury =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?=)
Re: SB Live! Value PCI ("G�rald Valentin")
Re: SB Live! Value PCI ("G�rald Valentin")
Re: Help!!! ("Pavan")
Re: SCSI Drive clicks every few hours... (Robert Hampf)
Re: Disk read errors (Christian Garms)
Re: hardware monitor for linux (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Kt7 133A with hpt370 (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Afreey DD-3206E DVD access problem (Samuel Hocevar)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Willcox)
Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 1610 laptop and the on-board sound
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 07:15:35 GMT
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:18:56 GMT, Colin G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Compaq Presario 1610 laptop that has an on-board ESS Maestro sound
>that I cannot for the life of me get to work under linux, although it (of
>course) works fine under Windows. Here's my current system setup:
I can help you; I have the exact same laptop, and I can tell you that the
onboard sound is indeed ESS, but it is an older Audio Drive chipset, not a
Maestro.
When I ran Redhat, it detected the card as a sound blaster compatible
and it worked OK. You don't mention your distro, but try treating the
card as a good old Sound Blaster (get the configuration from BIOS if
you need it) and it should work for you.
Good Luck,
-brent-
--
Brent Willcox
Univ. of North Texas
mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ares.homeip.net/~bwillcox/
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card config problems...
Date: 21 Mar 2001 07:49:17 +0100
grausam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Board 1 has Identity 81 ff ff ff ff 20 00 a8 65: YMH0020 Serial No -1
> [checksum 81]
> Board 2 has Identity f6 5a 13 f2 81 95 50 6d 50: TCM5095 Serial No -1
> [checksum f6]
> YMH0020/-1[0]{OPL3-SAX Sound Board}: Ports 0x220 0x530 0x388 0x330
> 0x370; IRQ5 DMA0 DMA1 --- Enabled OK
> YMH0020/-1[1]{OPL3-SAX Sound Board}: Port 0x201; --- Enabled OK
> /etc/isapnp.conf:268 -- Fatal -IO range check attempted while device
> activated
> /etc/isapnp.conf:268 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request
> '<IORESCHECK>' --- further action aborted
>
> Does anyone know what I can do to remedy this situation?
> -John Andrews
Your card seems to be a YAMAHA sound card. Look into your PC which card
you have exactly (e.g. look at the chips) and then point your browser
to www.linhardware.com or www.alsa.org to check out, if your card is
supported.
The Red Hat sndcfg you have may be too crappy.
--
regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Marco Mangiante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kt7 133A with hpt370
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:54:14 +0100
Thanks a lot for you response Kenneth.
Because I am a novice(i.e. I never installed Linux) I don't know the maining
of "distro" and the concept of the words with "distro". Please, you can say
me an explanation?
Thank you
Marco
"Kenneth R�rvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Mangiante) wrote in
> <995n3f$lnt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Hi,
> >I try to install Caldera Linux Distribution 2.3 with Kernel 2.2.10
> >version, but after i set the keyboard, language and mouse i receive this
> >message: "An error has occured-no valid devices were found on which to
> >create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this
> >problem". If I upgrade to kernel version 2.4, I can install linux.
> >Thanks
>
> Try Mandrake 7.2, that will make it a lot easier to install Linux with
this
> Mobo.
>
> 2.4 supports the hpt370, but unfortunately, you will need to install a
> linux distro *before* you upgrade the kernel. Unless you have the patience
> to wait for a distro with a 2.4.x kernel :)
>
> --
> Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
> Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Symbios (LSI) 1010 Ultra160 SCSI ok with Linux?
Date: 21 Mar 2001 07:59:45 GMT
Hi,
Ladies and gentlemen, can someone tell me if the Ultra160 SCSI
chipset by Symbios/NCR (3C1010, used embedded in some high-end mother-
boards like the Tyan Thunder 2500) is compatible with current Linux, I
mean the current Linux kernels and if so which driver.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: Help!!!
Date: 21 Mar 2001 08:32:54 GMT
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:52:22, "cedric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:08:03, cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> mount /dev/hdd give me an error message bad superblock or too many
> >> files mounted.
> >
> > You're trying to mount the whole disk drive, not the partitions within
> > it. Mount the correct partition and you might have some luck! Running
> > fdisk -l /dev/hdd will list the partitions available.
> >
> fdisk -l /dev/hdd shows no partitions. The same with /dev/hdb.
> How do I get them working?
> /dev/hdb is empty but there is data on /dev/hdd that I would like to try
> and recover. All my writing is backed up on floppies, but there is gigs
> of research material I'd like to get.
If you know *exactly* where the partitions started and ended then you
_might_ be able to recreate them. Unlike some FDISK's, Linux's doesn't
appear to overwrite information when you delete/define partitions so
it's possible to recover them *if* you know where they are! You might
also look for a utility called gpart (I think) which tries to guess
where partitions began and ended - I've never used it so don't know if
it's easy or difficult to use.
Until you get your partitions back then you are going nowhere. If the
data on these disks is worth real money to you then you might be
better off stopping now and sending them to one of the specialist data
recovery people like OnTrack. They charge an arm and a leg but should
get your data back.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Timo Hummel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial over TCP/IP Tunneling
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:12:49 +0100
Hi all.
I'm trying to do something unusual. Since there's no software for Windows CE
devices for Linux yet and VMWare is (beside that it costs something) very
slow for just doing syncronisation, I thought to use a Windows 2000 box with
the ActiveSync software which is located in a datacenter. So I want to
tunnel all serial data from a Windows 2000 Box to my local Linux machine.
Has anybody an idea how this could be done?
Thanks
Timo
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From: Dietmar =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herrend=F6rfer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Drive clicks every few hours...
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:10:37 +0100
Dan Smith wrote:
>
> I have a workstation that uses one single SCSI drive. Every once in a while, the
>drive sounds like it is resetting
> ...
>
> The drive is not all that new, but in fine condition... There shouldn't be anything
>wrong with it...
Harddisk sometimes do move their heads in order to recalibrate the head's position. In
particular not
so new drives do this. And this is not limited to SCSI drives, (E)IDE drives do this
too.
Shouldn't
happen very often though.
Dietmar Herrend�rfer
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From: Howard Schultens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disk read errors
Date: 21 Mar 2001 09:36:24 GMT
I am trying to rescue data from a disk that has developed bad
sectors. If I use dump or cpio, the operation hangs when it gets
to a bad sector and does not continue. In the process list (ie.
with 'ps -ax') the process is in state 'D', non-interruptible
sleep waiting for I/O to complete.
The process cannot be terminated using kill. Of course, I can
get rid of it by rebooting the system, but there must be some
tool to read from disks with bad sectors, or some way to continue
the read after the errors. The data is important!
Can anyone help me with this?
-- Howard
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From: "gonenc onay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: creative vibra 128
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:57:00 GMT
mandrake 7.2 recognize my card as ensoniq 1371es but it can't able to set
it.helppppppp
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Aparicio Patino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! Value PCI
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:21:48 +0100
"G�rald Valentin" escribi�:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running kernek 2.2.17 and I can't make my sound card (Sound Blaster
> Live! Value PCI) work correctly.
> Any help would be appreciated :-)
>
> When I make a "cat /usr/X11R6/lib/GNUstep/Apps/WMMail.app/Sounds/NewMail.au
> > /dev/audio" I can hardly hear a very bad quality sound with a lot of
> noise.
>
> Dmesg tells me the following:
>
> Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 13:20:10 Oct 5 2000
> emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x02 found, IO at 0xc400-0c41f, IRQ 10
>
> that is really good! But when I try "cat /dev/sndstat" it answers me "No
> such device".
>
> Looking in /etc/isapnp.gone I found:
>
> #
> # sound
> #
> #IO 0x220,16
> #IO 0x330, 2
> #IO 388,4
> #IRQ 5
> #DMA 1
> #DMA 5
>
> which are the good settings of my sound card (same as under Windows98).
>
> What is more, looking in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
>
> class: AUDIO
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: emu10k1
> desc: "Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio)"
> vendorId: 1102
> deviceId:0002
> subVendorId: 1102
> subDeviceId: 0020
> pciType: 1
>
> Everythings seems good and I feel very close to the solution but I'm
> stuck...
>
> For instance xmms 1.2.3 tells me the following when I try to play an mp3
> file:
>
> Couldn't open audio
> Please check that:
> 1. You have the correct output plugin selected
> 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard
> 3. Your soundcard is configured properly
>
> Any idea of how to make everything fit together?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Regards, G�rald.
Please, tell which distribution are you using.
I installed such a card in my PC two days ago under Red Hat 7.0 and then I ran
"setup".
The "setup" found the card and I could hear a very nosiy sound "Hello, this
is Linux ...".
Now I can play wav, mp3 and midi (through "Timidity") very well.
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From: "G�rald Valentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! Value PCI
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:00:29 +0100
Cause I can't guess which kernel works and which doesn't and I'm not gonna
try all existing possible kernels til I find one working correctly.
"Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
99827u$ird$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Why is it that people don't upgrade to the latest kernel?
> (The SBLive is detected automatically with it.)
>
> "Unknown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
>
>
> > I'm running kernek 2.2.17 and I can't make my sound card (Sound Blaster
> > Live! Value PCI) work correctly.
> > Any help would be appreciated :-)
>
> --
>
> .
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From: Fleury =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Onstream S-50
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:07:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
we have an Onstream tape based on a linux mandrake 7.2 server.
The tape is detected at the beginning and with dmesg, the output is what
you can see
(scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 7.
Vendor: OnStream Model: SC-50 Rev: 1.05
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
the problem is that we don't keep the tape in /dev
we have:
[root@saturne cups]# file /dev/*|grep "(9/0)"
/dev/md0: block special (9/0)
/dev/st0: character special (9/0)
if we try to watch what was stored with the same mandrake when the saved
syteme was working
since, we have had some problems and the system was installed again.
[root@saturne cups]# tar tvf /dev/st0
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Erreur d'entr�e/sortie
tar: Au d�but du ruban, fin pr�matur�e.
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
thank you writting to me
--
FLEURY S�bastien
Apprenti Ing�nieur Informatique et R�seaux
SESIN
7 avenue de l'europe 92310 Sevres
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From: "G�rald Valentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! Value PCI
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:13:41 +0100
I installed Mandrake 7.2 because it is the only distribution that found my
UDMA 66 disks :-)
The Suse 7.0 did it too but recognized only a few GB instead of 40 GB...
The Red Hat 7.0 just stopped the install saying there were no disks found on
my system...
The SlackWare 7.0 was impossible to install either because its fdisk didn't
find the disks.
I guess the point was to tell extra boot parameters to the kernel when
booting from the installation cd-rom such as ide1=0x...
but, as I wanted to try Mandrake 7.2 before using such advanced features it
managed to install properly so I kept it :-)
"Jos� Aparicio Patino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "G�rald Valentin" escribi�:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running kernek 2.2.17 and I can't make my sound card (Sound Blaster
> > Live! Value PCI) work correctly.
> > Any help would be appreciated :-)
> >
> > When I make a "cat
/usr/X11R6/lib/GNUstep/Apps/WMMail.app/Sounds/NewMail.au
> > > /dev/audio" I can hardly hear a very bad quality sound with a lot of
> > noise.
> >
> > Dmesg tells me the following:
> >
> > Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 13:20:10 Oct 5 2000
> > emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x02 found, IO at 0xc400-0c41f, IRQ 10
> >
> > that is really good! But when I try "cat /dev/sndstat" it answers me "No
> > such device".
> >
> > Looking in /etc/isapnp.gone I found:
> >
> > #
> > # sound
> > #
> > #IO 0x220,16
> > #IO 0x330, 2
> > #IO 388,4
> > #IRQ 5
> > #DMA 1
> > #DMA 5
> >
> > which are the good settings of my sound card (same as under Windows98).
> >
> > What is more, looking in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
> >
> > class: AUDIO
> > bus: PCI
> > detached: 0
> > driver: emu10k1
> > desc: "Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio)"
> > vendorId: 1102
> > deviceId:0002
> > subVendorId: 1102
> > subDeviceId: 0020
> > pciType: 1
> >
> > Everythings seems good and I feel very close to the solution but I'm
> > stuck...
> >
> > For instance xmms 1.2.3 tells me the following when I try to play an mp3
> > file:
> >
> > Couldn't open audio
> > Please check that:
> > 1. You have the correct output plugin selected
> > 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard
> > 3. Your soundcard is configured properly
> >
> > Any idea of how to make everything fit together?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Regards, G�rald.
>
> Please, tell which distribution are you using.
> I installed such a card in my PC two days ago under Red Hat 7.0 and then I
ran
> "setup".
> The "setup" found the card and I could hear a very nosiy sound "Hello,
this
> is Linux ...".
> Now I can play wav, mp3 and midi (through "Timidity") very well.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "G�rald Valentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! Value PCI
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:39:51 +0100
OK, sorry for my bad mood in the preceding mail... :-)
What I wanted to say is that I know that giving up and using kernel 2.4 is
the solution but this does not teach me anything.
I know I'm very far from being a guru at Linux also what I expect is to
learn more, to understand why a 2.2.17 kernel is unable to play sound while
a lot of parameters seem correct (see previous lines of dmesg, hwconf,
isapnp...) and all I hoped from such a newsgroup was a little help (if not
why wasting time and space maintaining such newsgroups?) that could be
usefull to other people too.
Regards, G�rald.
"G�rald Valentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
999vf9$o2p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cause I can't guess which kernel works and which doesn't and I'm not gonna
> try all existing possible kernels til I find one working correctly.
>
> "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
> 99827u$ird$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Why is it that people don't upgrade to the latest kernel?
> > (The SBLive is detected automatically with it.)
> >
> > "Unknown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
> >
> >
> > > I'm running kernek 2.2.17 and I can't make my sound card (Sound
Blaster
> > > Live! Value PCI) work correctly.
> > > Any help would be appreciated :-)
> >
> > --
> >
> > .
>
>
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From: "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!!!
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:13:02 +0530
> also look for a utility called gpart (I think) which tries to guess
> where partitions began and ended - I've never used it so don't know
if
> it's easy or difficult to use.
There is also a findpart & findext2 available somewhere on the net.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf)
Subject: Re: SCSI Drive clicks every few hours...
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:38:52 +0200
Dietmar Herrend�rfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
:
: Harddisk sometimes do move their heads in order to recalibrate the head's position.
Somebody told me that this had to do with heat. Since I added a fan
to the case the disks aren't ticking quite as often.
rh
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk read errors
Date: 21 Mar 2001 11:47:48 +0100
Howard Schultens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The process cannot be terminated using kill. Of course, I can
> get rid of it by rebooting the system, but there must be some
> tool to read from disks with bad sectors, or some way to continue
> the read after the errors. The data is important!
Is it (a) a floppy disk (b) zip disk (c) hard disk (d) MO disk?
How important is your data? Maybe it is worth to give your 'disk' to a
professional disk restorer. It cost round about 0.50USD per megabyte to
save data from a hard disk (hard disk content will be burned on cds).
--
regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: hardware monitor for linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:36:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I apologize if I've missed a previous thread about this, but I was
>wondering if anyone can suggest a hardware monitor for linux. Also, I'm
>under the impression that this needs specific support in the kernel. Is
>this correct? Thanks for any suggestions.
lm_sensors may be the thing for you - search for it on freshmeat.net.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Subject: Re: Kt7 133A with hpt370
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:42:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Mangiante) wrote in
<999mh5$2n7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Thanks a lot for you response Kenneth.
>Because I am a novice(i.e. I never installed Linux) I don't know the
>maining of "distro" and the concept of the words with "distro". Please,
>you can say me an explanation?
>Thank you
Distro means a Linux "distribution", like Red Hat, Mandrake, Caldera etc.
There are many of them around, and all of them have slightly different
setups. The most important difference is the choice of "package"
management, which means the method used to install new software packages.
The most popular ones are rpm (RedHat with clones, like Mandrake,
Turbolinux)and deb (Debian, Storm...).
I generally find Mandrake to be the easiest to install and set up if you're
a beginner. It will also allow a bit more advanced users to do what they
want. Plus, it will install on your system without requiring special
tricks.
You may want to check out other distributions as you become more
comfortable. Head on over to www.linuxdoc.org and see if you can find any
good texts in the howto-section :)
Good luck! Regards, Kenneth.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Hocevar)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Afreey DD-3206E DVD access problem
Date: 21 Mar 2001 11:52:41 GMT
On 17 Mar 2001 10:01:34 GMT,
Andrew Ebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having problems using the above dvd drive in linux (also sold under
> the name I/O Magic x6 DVD. I do not seem to be able to access past 2.5GB
> or so. If I mount a disc (either as udf or iso9660) and run file on the
> contents I get the following output:
Did you authenticate with the drive using a program like css-auth or
a DVD player ? It won't let you access its encrypted data if you don't
authenticate first.
Sam.
--
Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://sam.zoy.org/>
for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \
perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip
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