Help with HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT

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knobbi
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Help with HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT

Post by knobbi »

Hi-ya,

Is there anyway to work around a bad disk?

I have a few DVDs (not bluray) that wont rip because of, well, i don't know, manufacturing faults?
MakeMKV v1.9.7 linux(x64-release) started
Using direct disc access mode
Title #1 was added (7 cell(s), 1:09:05)
Operation successfully completed
Saving 1 titles into directory /home/knobbi/Desktop/
Error 'Scsi error - HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT' occurred while reading '/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB' at offset '2274492416'
Error 'Scsi error - HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT' occurred while reading '/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB' at offset '2274492416'
Error 'Scsi error - HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT' occurred while reading '/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB' at offset '2274492416'
Error 'Scsi error - HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT' occurred while reading '/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB' at offset '2274492416'
Failed to save title 0 to file /home/knobbi/Desktop/title00.mkv
0 titles saved, 1 failed
Is there any way to work around these problems?
If that means that there's a little bit of corruption in the video stream for a second, I can live with this.

thanks,
-knobbi
Woodstock
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Re: Help with HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT

Post by Woodstock »

Are you talking about a bad DRIVE or a bad DISK?

The errors you show are that the drive didn't respond with data in a reasonable amount of time. If it occurs on many disks, then you might want to clean the drive, and possibly look at another drive.
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knobbi
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Re: Help with HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT

Post by knobbi »

To answer my own question ...

You can pre-rip the DVD in question with dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 conv=noerror > Desktop/blah.iso

The conv=noerror tells dd to ignore errors.

And then mount this image for MakeMKVing. I don't know if all the errors in the image will break the MakeMKV part of the process, as my DVD is still ripping. Looks like the 2nd-half of the disk is in a really bad way :(
knobbi
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Re: Help with HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT

Post by knobbi »

Woodstock wrote:Are you talking about a bad DRIVE or a bad DISK?
A bad disk. The drive seems to function perfectly well otherwise.
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Re: Help with HARDWARE ERROR:TIMEOUT ON LOGICAL UNIT

Post by Woodstock »

MakeMKV may go through the ISO without issue, but you're going to run into problems with any playback or post-processing.
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