On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:44:45AM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:31:20AM -0500, John J. Trammell wrote: > > cp: reading `/cdrom/318.DBF': Input/output error > > cp: reading `/cdrom/319.DBF': Input/output error > > cp: reading `/cdrom/320.DBF': Input/output error > > <snip> > > If anyone has seen this before, I'd be grateful if you reply. FYI, > > this is happening on kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.20, Debian woody and sid. > > I have gotten similar errors before, and I have always chalked > them up to either bad media or a bad burns (underflows when burning, > etc.) . Have you tried reading the CD with any other machine - > the one that created or any other machine that is handy? > 'Fraid so. I've tried it in the two desktop machines at home, the laptop, and this morning at work. They all give out at around 650 MB: $ du -cks [012]* 30* | tail ... 2352 308.DBF 2232 309.DBF 667400 total $ Which isn't so bad, I suppose. Guess I need to tell my friend to stop jamming so much stuff on 1 CD. Here's a quarter, kid, go buy another one. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list