IMac Game disk problem

My 2 year old iMac will no longer read dual layered DVD's. For example I just bought x-plane 10 and everytime I insert the disk a error message come up saying the disk you inserted was not readable by your computer, when the version I got is dual layered as for Mac OS X. Has anyone had the same problem with loading dual layered disks. Movie DVD's do not work and x-plane 10 does not work, but the office 2010 dvd and the MAC OS X dvd works, I don't think these two are dual layered.
Please help Thanks

The OS X 10.6 disk is certainly dual layered as it holds apx 4.5 GB OS X installer, I've copied them before.
The likely issue is X-Plane 10 was for a PC and not a Mac?? Perhaps has a auto-run feature that and program that Mac's cant' run?
Far as Movie DVD's, this could be that they were made on another machine?
DVD's are finicky things, either they are cheaply made or the industry purposely makes them so they don't work some of the time to prevent piracy or something.
Could be your Superdrive laser is dirty or hte disks are dirty/scratched.
I find a tiny bit of rubbing alcohol and a very soft clean cloths does a good job of polishing them up.

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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:80:b0:4b:c0/00:00:4f:00:00/40 tag 16 ncq 4096 out
    res 40/00:ff:80:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/10:88:90:4b:80/00:00:50:00:00/40 tag 17 ncq 8192 out
    res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:90:98:22:81/00:00:50:00:00/40 tag 18 ncq 4096 out
    res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:98:00:0e:00/00:00:5f:00:00/40 tag 19 ncq 4096 out
    res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
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    res 40/00:ff:ff:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:a8:80:08:80/00:00:5f:00:00/40 tag 21 ncq 4096 out
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:b8:70:c8:75/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 23 ncq 4096 out
    res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:c8:88:c9:75/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 25 ncq 4096 out
    res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:d8:a0:ce:75/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 27 ncq 4096 out
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:e0:68:d3:75/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 28 ncq 4096 out
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:e8:90:d4:75/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 29 ncq 4096 out
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:f0:b8:d5:75/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 30 ncq 4096 out
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] UNKNOWN Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x06
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 12 88 d7 c0 00 04 d0 00
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 310958016
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device sda2): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 36311758 (offset 8388608 size 2695168 starting block 38869906)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 19995128
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 19995129
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 19995130
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    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 19995136
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 19995137
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] UNKNOWN Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x06
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 4b dd 39 88 00 01 78 00
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1272789384
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device sda2): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 34999445 (offset 0 size 192512 starting block 159098720)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] UNKNOWN Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x06
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 4e 2a b3 e8 00 05 40 00
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1311421416
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device sda2): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 35001016 (offset 0 size 2232320 starting block 163927845)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: EH complete
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: failed command: CHECK POWER MODE
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: cmd e5/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 25
    res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
    abr 22 12:57:11 echoes kernel: ata1: EH complete
    Current smart status:
    smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-4.0.1-1-ARCH] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
    === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
    Model Family: Toshiba 2.5" HDD MQ01ABD...
    Device Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100
    Serial Number: Y44MT611T
    LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 5e1a80e85
    Firmware Version: AX1P5E
    User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
    Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
    Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
    Form Factor: 2.5 inches
    Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
    ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
    SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
    Local Time is: Sun May 3 16:42:06 2015 ART
    SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
    SMART support is: Enabled
    === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
    SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
    General SMART Values:
    Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
    was completed without error.
    Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
    Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
    without error or no self-test has ever
    been run.
    Total time to complete Offline
    data collection: ( 120) seconds.
    Offline data collection
    capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
    Suspend Offline collection upon new
    command.
    Offline surface scan supported.
    Self-test supported.
    No Conveyance Self-test supported.
    Selective Self-test supported.
    SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
    power-saving mode.
    Supports SMART auto save timer.
    Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
    General Purpose Logging supported.
    Short self-test routine
    recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
    Extended self-test routine
    recommended polling time: ( 234) minutes.
    SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
    SCT Feature Control supported.
    SCT Data Table supported.
    SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
    Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
    ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
    1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
    2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
    3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 1671
    4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 306
    5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 152
    7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
    8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
    9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 699
    10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 106 100 030 Pre-fail Always - 0
    12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 300
    191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 216
    192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 14
    193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 14140
    194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 34 (Min/Max 16/44)
    196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19
    197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
    199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
    220 Disk_Shift 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 515
    223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    224 Load_Friction 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    226 Load-in_Time 0x0026 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 190
    240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0001 100 100 001 Pre-fail Offline - 0
    SMART Error Log Version: 1
    No Errors Logged
    SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
    Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
    # 1 Vendor (0x50) Completed without error 00% 611 -
    # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 611 -
    # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 597 -
    # 4 Vendor (0x50) Completed without error 00% 583 -
    # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 583 -
    # 6 Vendor (0x50) Completed without error 00% 575 -
    # 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 575 -
    # 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 547 -
    # 9 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 529 -
    #10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 355 -
    #11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 355 -
    #12 Extended offline Aborted by host 70% 355 -
    #13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 319 -
    #14 Vendor (0x50) Completed without error 00% 13 -
    #15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13 -
    #16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12 -
    SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
    SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1 0 0 Not_testing
    2 0 0 Not_testing
    3 0 0 Not_testing
    4 0 0 Not_testing
    5 0 0 Not_testing
    Selective self-test flags (0x0):
    After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
    If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
    Kernels used have been from 3.9 to current: Linux echoes 4.0.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 29 12:00:26 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    Last edited by jesu (2015-05-03 19:42:53)

    Something i'd noticed both the first time i was on arch and now i've reinstalled it, was that at first i didn't have this problem. I mean, when Arch was just installed. While i was installing and setting up everything.
    Now, i'm not 100% sure about this, but i think problems began when using my current user. Disk is partitioned the following way:
    $ lsblk
    NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
    sda 8:0 0 931,5G 0 disk
    ├─sda1 8:1 0 1000M 0 part
    ├─sda2 8:2 0 260M 0 part /boot
    ├─sda3 8:3 0 207,7G 0 part
    ├─sda4 8:4 0 25G 0 part
    ├─sda5 8:5 0 14,8G 0 part
    ├─sda6 8:6 0 80,5G 0 part /
    ├─sda8 8:8 0 599G 0 part /home
    └─sda9 8:9 0 2G 0 part [SWAP]
    So, i believe problems, for some reason, are related (and were related), both before and now, to the /home partition, /dev/sda8 in this ocassion.
    Because of this, i booted into systemd rescue mode, like root, rw, and unmounted /home partition. Despite root-only limitations, i used the system for a couple of hours, started lxqt, browsed the web mainly, and experienced no problem at all.
    Now i booted normally, with my regular user, and these problems are experienced just like before (and almost instantly, like 3 or 5 minutes after starting system use).
    dmesg this time showed a some different log, though it's not the first time i see this. I just didn't saved that kind of log before.
    [ 653.821719] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x100 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
    [ 653.821726] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
    [ 653.821732] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:40:60:25:43/00:00:1b:00:00/40 tag 8 ncq 4096 in
    res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    [ 653.821735] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    [ 653.821739] ata1: hard resetting link
    [ 659.156760] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
    [ 663.851604] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
    [ 663.851610] ata1: hard resetting link
    [ 669.186591] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
    [ 673.881456] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
    [ 673.881462] ata1: hard resetting link
    [ 679.216481] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
    [ 702.743982] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
    [ 703.012578] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
    [ 703.012584] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 703.012599] ata1: EH complete
    [ 714.097642] systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service watchdog timeout (limit 1min)!
    [ 742.443488] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#18 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x06
    [ 742.443494] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#18 CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 28 c3 c6 40 00 00 10 00
    [ 742.443497] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 683918912
    [ 742.443503] EXT4-fs warning (device sda8): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 20322020 (offset 0 size 0 starting block 85489866)
    [ 742.443506] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323208
    [ 742.443508] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323209
    [ 742.443515] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#19 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x06
    [ 742.443518] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#19 CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 28 c3 c6 80 00 00 10 00
    [ 742.443520] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 683918976
    [ 742.443522] EXT4-fs warning (device sda8): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 20322020 (offset 0 size 0 starting block 85489874)
    [ 742.443524] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323216
    [ 742.443526] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323217
    [ 742.443531] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#20 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x06
    [ 742.443534] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#20 CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 28 c3 c6 d0 00 00 10 00
    [ 742.443536] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 683919056
    [ 742.443538] EXT4-fs warning (device sda8): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 20322020 (offset 0 size 0 starting block 85489884)
    [ 742.443540] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323226
    [ 742.443542] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323227
    [ 742.443547] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#21 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x06
    [ 742.443549] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#21 CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 28 c3 c7 10 00 00 10 00
    [ 742.443551] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 683919120
    [ 742.443553] EXT4-fs warning (device sda8): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 20322020 (offset 0 size 0 starting block 85489892)
    [ 742.443555] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323234
    [ 742.443557] Buffer I/O error on device sda8, logical block 9323235
    [ 756.187685] systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
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