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Possible fix for "unable to read disc" #27

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FrischMrT opened this issue Jul 1, 2020 · 28 comments
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Possible fix for "unable to read disc" #27

FrischMrT opened this issue Jul 1, 2020 · 28 comments

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@FrischMrT
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FrischMrT commented Jul 1, 2020

I have tried the "3.11 only - all regions - English lang.iso" on my PS2 and it failed.
Then I noticed that I had burned the copy at max speed and made another copy with the lowest speed settings.
The second copy failed too.
To be safe I made another copy with the "hybrid 3.10 and 3.11 - all regions - English lang.iso" and it failed too.
I was sure that my drive was fine and tested it with a DVD movie.
The movie started and everything was fine.
It might be the first time that I have ever played a DVD movie on my PS2.

Now comes the interesting part.
Suddenly all three copies started to work!

Can anyone else confirm that using the DVD Player on the PS2 for the first time with a real DVD movie solves the "unable to read disc" problem?

Tested on:
SCPH-77004
DVD Player 3.11E
Burned on a DVD-R

@AKuHAK
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AKuHAK commented Jul 1, 2020

Hmm, maybe there is such a thing as DVD initialization. It can be possible because a similar thing happens for HDD exploits.

@uyjulian
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uyjulian commented Jul 1, 2020

Sounds like a disc read error issue to me. Putting another disc may have caused the laser to recalibrate, so poorly written discs may become readable.

@FrischMrT
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@uyjulian you might be right.
I tried to somehow reproduce the error and noticed that, on startup and after closing the lid, my drive stopped making clicking noises.
The clicking noises never really worried me because PS2 Games always worked fine even if they were in bad shape, so I thought the drive is just old but still fully functional.

But I still don't understand why the burned discs only started to work right after I played a DVD movie and not after a PS2 game.

@yoyoAjay
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yoyoAjay commented Jul 2, 2020

Which dvd movie was it? And it was dvd-rw? And blue ir golden back?

@FrischMrT
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FrischMrT commented Jul 2, 2020

@yoyoAjay it was "Fluch der Karibik" (Pirates of the Caribbean) and I'm not sure what kind of disk format DVD Video use.
Probably any DVD Video might work, just make sure it is a retail DVD movie with this logo:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/9/96/DVD_Video_Logo.svg

yoyoAjay did you set your system language to English?
This is important because on my PS2 the exploit only works if I set the system language to English.

What kind of DVD media did you use?
As far as I know only DVD-R works reliable.
I had many problems with DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW in the past on my PS2.

What is your DVD Player version?
Make sure that you use the right FreeDVDBoot image.

What settings did you used to burn the DVD?
Try to finalize the disc. I don't know if this step is necessary but its worth a try.

If the steps' didn't helped, try the "DVD movie method" and let me know if it works.
It would be very interesting to know if the DVD movie playback makes any difference.

@CTurt
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CTurt commented Jul 2, 2020

Cool, glad you got it working. Will add a link to this in the readme, as it could be helpful!

@CTurt CTurt closed this as completed Jul 2, 2020
@yoyoAjay
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yoyoAjay commented Jul 2, 2020

I followed this yt video https://youtu.be/M9b15v-4l6I

And disc is dvd+r but it recognises the disc but when i enter it says no data something..😟 and dvds are stuck at reading disc

@FrischMrT
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FrischMrT commented Jul 2, 2020

So I just made a copy on a DVD+R and it worked.
I also made a copy on a DVD+RW and i got the "Unable to read disc." error.
And as expected a copy on a CD-R ends up in the red screen saying:
"Please insert a Playstation or Playstation2 format disc"

@yoyoAjay are you sure that you use the right image of FreeDVDBoot?
Did you check your DVD Player version on the version information screen?

@yoyoAjay
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yoyoAjay commented Jul 2, 2020 via email

@FrischMrT
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@yoyoAjay I can see in your other issues that you use the right version.
Any luck yet?
Did you try to play a retail DVD movie on your PS2?
Was you drive able to read the retail DVD disc?

@yoyoAjay
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yoyoAjay commented Jul 2, 2020

@yoyoAjay I can see in your other issues that you use the right version.
Any luck yet?
Did you try to play a retail DVD movie on your PS2?
Was you drive able to read the retail DVD disc?

No luck ps2 can't read dvd movies I don't know why its happeninggg to me😕..

@FadilCox
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I recently got the "unable to read disc error" while using imgburn on my phat ps2 39000 with a 2.12U dvd version. Fortunately I came across a suggestion to use another program called CDBurnerXP at a speed of 1x and tried it and IT WORKED! I suggest those having issues try that method. The cd I used was a maxwell dvd-r with 4.7 GB of space. Also make sure not to burn a disc two times as dvd-r can only be burned once and make sure your dvd laser is working by testing a movie on your ps2. Happy gaming.

@zninja101
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@FadilCox I followed what you said to do and it worked! Thank you for the info, my guy!

@darkloner93
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I tried the DVD video method, it is only reading and not doing anything. My console language is in English, i don't know why DVDboot is not working.

@AfanThePS2Modder
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I have same problem but when i tried with dvd movie it worked but not fdvdb. However I think it is because it is a sliver one, not blue.

@SharifAhmed909
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I have a ps2 slim scph 90004 2B and l have burned DVD-R disc with freedvdboot all slim versions English but when I try to play it in my console it shows no data found.... Can anyone help me pls...

@C0nexi0n
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C0nexi0n commented May 4, 2022

I have a PS2 Slim SCPH-75004 with a 3.11E DVD player. i tried to burn FDVDB with several Programms like Imgburn, CDBurnerXP and even windows explorer on DVD+R. I used this ISO. I also tried other writing speeds instead of the slowest but my ps2 can't read the disks. Games and movie-DVDs are working fine.

Nevermind, i fixed it by using DVD-R Disks instead of DVD+R Disks

@9bitsdelta
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9bitsdelta commented May 31, 2022

Hello! I'm getting the same "The disc could not be read" error on a SCPH-90001 console with 3.11E DVD player version.

I tried playing a retail DVD, that worked, but my burned DVD-R didn't.

I tried with two burned DVDs, the latter was cleaned before burning, both were done at 4x speed with ImgBurn and this ISO: All PS2 Slims - English language.iso

Update: I switched to CDBurnerXP, still on 4x, the slowest speed my optical drive allows, still can't read the disk.

@ab310714gz4700
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I recently got the "unable to read disc error" while using imgburn on my phat ps2 39000 with a 2.12U dvd version. Fortunately I came across a suggestion to use another program called CDBurnerXP at a speed of 1x and tried it and IT WORKED! I suggest those having issues try that method. The cd I used was a maxwell dvd-r with 4.7 GB of space. Also make sure not to burn a disc two times as dvd-r can only be burned once and make sure your dvd laser is working by testing a movie on your ps2. Happy gaming.

MaxWell is MAXELL

@cleveHEX
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Thanks, playing a regular video DVD helped me, didn't work before and worked after.

@SamKotBrown
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SamKotBrown commented Dec 3, 2024

Hello. Here on 2024 again. I tried everything said here. Burning it on 1x with cdBurnerXP, changing language to english, playing other dvds. It reads my other ps2 discs so i guess it's some kind of skill issue. I'm getting a memory card from amazon to be able to play it. Maybe it's a laser thing or maybe i'm just bad at this. Anyways, thank you for the knowledge i got from this thread and, for the future people; hope it works for you.

PD: I have the same PS2 slim model as the original poster, the scph-77004.

@Milesprower3594
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On ps2 slim model 77001. I got the burned disc to read after several attempts by opening the browser, inserting a game disc, (Final Fantasy X) then swapped the discs without opening the game. I'm using a 32GB third party memory card

@Mantimuts
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Hello. Here on almost 2025. I have a PS2 77004 with DVD Player 3.11E. I have always the same error ''The disc could not be read.'' but i don't know why. I used this iso ''PREBUILT ISOs/All PS2 Slims - English language.iso''. I used an EMTEC DVD-R 4.7 120/16.
I also tried playing dvd (garvield) but it has the same issue. The ps2 can read games so idk what to do.
please help

@AKuHAK
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AKuHAK commented Dec 29, 2024

@Mantimuts 77k are known to have very bad calibrated lasers, so the lasers refuses to read disks. There is not much to do unfortunately other then replacing the laser.

@Mantimuts
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@Mantimuts 77k are known to have very bad calibrated lasers, so the lasers refuses to read disks. There is not much to do unfortunately other then replacing the laser.

Is there anything other i can do?

@AKuHAK
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AKuHAK commented Dec 30, 2024

@Mantimuts 77k are known to have very bad calibrated lasers, so the lasers refuses to read disks. There is not much to do unfortunately other then replacing the laser.

Is there anything other i can do?

you can solder some UART device to the mechacon test points and try to calibrate it with the PMAP program by connecting UART device to your PC.

@AfanThePS2Modder
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Whew, hasn't been a while since I last typed here. As in PS2 stuff. I was 10 when I wrote my last message. Now, I'm 13.. how time flies. Well, I fixed it by opening the PS2 and playing with some calibration screws.

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ImPixel64 commented Feb 6, 2025

Hello, i'm having the same problem, my PS2 read games also movies, but can't read FreeDVDBoot, i'm so sure that was fine burned but my PS2 doesn't read the FDVDB in movie mode or well... it enters directly to browser and appears the disc logo but when i press X to enter it just shows the animation when you enter but nothing happens.

So I did something i saw on a YT comment, basicaly, put two sticks, one on the disk brake, and another on the hinge that detects the lid of the PS2, so... It didn't work, but i've notice that the laser just read a bit the disc but afterwards it turns off, and then starts to read the disc a little longer, but it turns off again...

With my games and movies doesn't turn off the laser

EDIT: I've noticed that FreeDVDBoot shows as Playstation Game (PSX i think, but turning on the console on DVD mode doesn't works too). Also there's "click" noises when the PS2 is reading the FreeDVDBoot.

EDIT 2: My PS2 have a modchip but isn't Matrix, i cant see the Matrix's bootlogo or deactivate Matrix with a buttons combo

EDIT 3: I opened my PS2 and i found a chip called Super-7 (E17)

(I apologize for my english, i'm learning)

PS2 Slim SCPH-90001
DVD Player 3.11U

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