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    SubjectRe: CD ROM Troubles
    On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Anthony Tuininga wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I just acquired a copy of Personal Empress for Linux and tried to install it
    > on my machine -- it failed miserably on the uncompress from the CD ROM.
    > Apparently at some point during the uncompress tar runs into a problem and
    > bails out. If I copy the file (which is about 15MB in size) onto the hard
    > drive and try it, I get the same problem. If I perform a diff on the copied
    > file and on the file on the CD ROM it tells me that the files are different!
    > Something very strange is going on! I tried it under kernel 1.3.15 to see if
    > anything new had caused problems but that didn't help any either. I just
    > upgraded to version 2.0.17 and the problem actually seemed to get worse (the
    > tar error occurs much earlier in the archive). Any help on this problem
    > would be much appreciated! :-)

    I've seen the same problem. The data seems to get corrupted when read
    from te CD. When I mount it, I use the option cruft=yes and it gets a
    little better, but the problem remains :(

    > Oh, I did find a workaround for this problem -- I copied it under MS DOS
    > and then uncompressed, which worked, so the CD ROM drive is not faulty.

    That's what I do...

    > I am running kernel 2.0.17 (was 2.0.8) and the CD ROM drive as detected
    > by the kernel on startup is a Hitachi CDR-7730, ATAPI CD ROM drive. I am
    > using the default ATAPI driver.

    Same problem, same driver...
    BTW I've experienced the same problem under NT 3.0 (don't yell at me, I
    only use it because I HAVE TO, don't like it ;).
    Could it be that the CD-ROM is faulty and they fix it by software in the
    DOS driver?

    > Anthony
    > atuining@computronix.com
    > atuining@wnet.gov.edmonton.ab.ca

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