You may have to choose a region. Look at this site www.videohelp.com on the left nav there are links to discussions about dvd drives and ways to restore all your region settings so that none of your user or vendor sets will be gone. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pierce" <john.j35@xxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 2:45 AM Subject: DVD Problem? > I have just installed Fedora 4 on an IBM Thinkpad T21, I had to > install from cd's as the DVD/CDRW drive would not read the DVD install > disc. > > After installing and update Fedora I tried to watch a dvd movie, then > tried to mount the install dvd and the drive will not recognize either > of them. > > I ran cdrecord -scanbus and this is the result: > 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-ROM SR-8175 ' 'G228' Removable CD-ROM > > I know that I have a DVD-ROM SR-8175 with firmware G228. I started > looking at possible region problems and ran a utility called > dvd_region and this was the output. > > Drive region info: > Type: Drive region is set > 4 vendor resets available > 4 user controlled changes available > Region: 1 playable > RPC Scheme: The Logical Unit _shall_ adhere to the specification and > all requirements of the CSS license agreement concerning RPC > > >From this output I came to the conclusion that the drive is RPC-1 or > region free, so why can I not mount a dvd-disc. > > This is a snip from anaconda-syslog > > hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > I have no idea how to resolve this. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > John > -- > Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at > http://counter.li.org > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
