Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources...

[Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu>]

You missed the part where I said the only way to retrieve the files was
in Windows and that I wanted to enable whatever error correction or
multiple read settings that Windows has but while I'm in Linux.

Any ideas?


On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 09:25, Robert Couture wrote:
> Originally to: Bryan Simmons
> 
> Hello Bryan!
> 
> On 20/10/2002, Bryan Simmons was caught whispering to All about
> Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources....
> 
>  BS> The CDs I'm trying to read were made in Windows (98, 2000, XP) with this
>  BS> very same drive about a year ago.  They all contain home-made movies
>  BS> that I created in XP.  The range in sizes is 9MB to 200MB.  Now, I have
>  BS> never been able to play any of them directly off of the disk in Windows,
>  BS> but I have always been able to transfer them from CD to hard disk.  My
>  BS> problem in Linux is that the drive "stalls" during a copy or a read of
>  BS> the media during playback in xine or kaboodle or xmovie, etc...  It
>  BS> would play the first 30 seconds of the film and then stall out.  The
>  BS> media program freezes and the drive is locked until I kill the processes
>  BS> accessing it.  The same is true when I attempt a copy from CD to hard
>  BS> drive in Konqueror.  The copy window says it transfered 4MB and then the
>  BS> drive status windows says "stalled" and that's as far as I can get.
> 
> To be honest, the symptoms you describe sounds more like a bad CD than
> anything to do with Linux itself.  This is based on you needing to copy the
> files to play them in Windows.  There are likely bad "sectors" that re
> recoverable with multiple reads and error correction.  That would explain it
> not working in the Windows and Linux media players.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Robert.
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Bryan Simmons 
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