Hi folks. I have a rather large collection of MP3s that I burned onto CDs using my step-brother's burner, which is on a Windows box. I burned it on using the DirectCD system. Anyway, I compiled Joliet extension support into my kernel and can mount the CDs fine; I get a directory listing, and all seems to work okay. However, I was unable to play the MP3s off the CD -- I presumed this was because I have an old computer whose CD read speed was simply too slow. So I decided to copy the file onto my drive. Upon doing so, cp hangs for a long time as the CD sounds like it's 'trying' to read. Eventually, I get "cp: reading 'Foo - Bar.mp3': Input/output error" on stderr. However, the cp was partially successful: a portion of the file does seem to transfer. I know this isn't a problem with my drive because my Debian CD, which I burned on the same CD burner (albeit without the DirectCD stuff) reads quite correctly, even with large files (like tetex-base). Of course, that's ISO9660 + rockridge instead of joliet extensions. I can get small text files and such off of the CD. The partially cp'd mp3 is not corrupted in any way, it's just not complete. I know it isn't the CD, because I can read them properly with my roomate's Windows computer. So basically, I'm at a loss. Has anyone had similar problems? I have an ATAPI compat cd-rom drive, am running linux 2.4.2, Debian/testing. This problem occured also when my box was stable with a 2.2.17 kernel. This is a CDR, not a CDRW, btw. Thanks for any help you can give. I'm at a loss w/o my music! -- Alexander Poquet | We leave the obvious generalizations to the atpoquet@ucdavis.edu | reader. -- Israel Herstein Use of PGP preferable in reply | Use Linux!
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