Re: [Sheflug] Re: CDROM problem

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> The first attempted file was a pak0.pak off a quake 2 original cd,
> not dodgy, and it did it, I never thought of using KDE and assumed it
> was a fault on the CD, so I borrowed a friends CD of quake2 and did
> that with KDE first, then went back to see if it would work with cp,
> and it bailed out around the same place, the filesize could have been
> exactly the same as that from the first failure.
>
> The next thing to try was the Heavy Gear II demo file off a LXF
> issue, i got the cd that day, so I think the problem is more likely
> to be my CD drive. I hope not.

If you can, try and get the sector numbers of all the places it's failing.
By guess would be that they would be either very low or very high - i.e., at
one side of the disk or the other. I reckon it's probably alignment or
something. Possibly a knackered CD transport. Not worth replacing, I'm
afraid. Go out and get yourself that lovely new DVD drive you've been
promising yourself :S

Cheers,

Alex.

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