ASUS BW-16D1HT won't read certain DVDs - also cannot create ISO

dankcuddlybear · 2021-12-30 03:41:07

I have a weird issue with my ASUS BW-16D1HT Blu-ray drive (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264845301306). It won't read certain DVDs which read just fine on Windows (with the same drive), or on my Arch Linux HTPC (with a normal DVD drive). EXAMPLE: Red Dwarf (BBCDVD) Series 1-4 DVDs play just fine, Series 5-8 DVDs are not recognised on Arch Linux, Manjaro, Ubuntu or any other Linux distro (it says there is no disc in the drive).

Also, whenever I try to create a disc backup with dd, it copies the first 960KiB and then the drive goes to sleep and refuses to wake back up (this is the case for all DVDs I've tried).

Last edited by dankcuddlybear (2022-01-03 19:09:49)

V1del · 2022-01-02 15:11:13

Make sure libdvdcss is installed. What are you using for reading? for the issue with dd, try setting the SATA support to max_performance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_ … Management see also the potential additional note for dvd drives in that same article.

Last edited by V1del (2022-01-02 15:15:27)

dankcuddlybear · 2022-01-02 22:13:34

libdvdcss is installed, and I'm reading on my laptop with Firefox

glenjo · 2022-01-02 22:33:59

I have the exact same Blu-ray drive, and have not had this problem. Here's the output from lshw:

description: DVD-RAM writer
product: BW-16D1HT
vendor: ASUS
physical id: 3
bus info: scsi@8:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 3.10
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

Arch Linux

#1 2021-12-30 03:41:07

ASUS BW-16D1HT won't read certain DVDs - also cannot create ISO

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Re: ASUS BW-16D1HT won't read certain DVDs - also cannot create ISO

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Re: ASUS BW-16D1HT won't read certain DVDs - also cannot create ISO

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Re: ASUS BW-16D1HT won't read certain DVDs - also cannot create ISO

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