Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files

[Darrell Wright <dwright@beached.dyndns.org>]

I agree, I frequently find myself getting files off damages cd's that
others running windows cannot access.  It takes a while, but I can
usually get everything but the files on the damaged parts and even then
I can get parts of them usually.

Darrell

On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:14, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dr. Death wrote:
> 
> > Problem:
> > 
> > I use SuSE Linux 7.2 and when I create md5sums from damaged files on a 
> > CD, the WHOLE system  freezes or is ugly slow untill md5 has passed the 
> > damaged part of the file !
> > 
> 
> So what do you suggest? You can see from the logs that the device
> is having difficulty  reading your damaged CD. You can do what
> Windows-95 does (ignore the errors and pretend everything is fine),
> or what Windows-98 and Windows-2000/Prof does (blue-screen, and re-boot),
> or you can try like hell to read the files like Linux does. What do you
> suggest?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> 
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
> 
>                  Windows-2000/Professional isn't.
> 
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