Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files | | From | Darrell Wright <> | | Date | 19 Apr 2002 10:28:58 -0400 |
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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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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