Re: DVD that other computers can't play

["Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:53:10 +0100
Rumko <rumcic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:37:33 -0500
> > Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> > 
> >> I installed vlc and tried to play the disk. It came up with a menu
> >> saying "English/Español"; I picked one and tried to play one of the
> >> movies. It is now spewing an endless stream of the following error on
> >> the console: acd0: setting up DMA failed
> >> ata1: FAILURE - oversized DMA transfer attempt 100352 > 65536
> >> At least that's farther than I got on Windows, and I understand the
> >> error. How do I fix it?
> > 
> > Nasty - I thought that problem was fixed some time ago, I haven't
> > seen it recently. A workaround is to use natacontrol to turn off DMA on
> > the drive like this:
> > 
> > natacontrol mode acd0 pio4
> > 
> 
> This setting up DMA failed problem has appeared recently. After upgrading
> from a 31st Jan kernel, I experienced an extremely similar message (just
> that in my case the first number was 69632).

	Make that reappeared then - it was a major pain several months ago.

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