Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 04 June 2009 22:39:50 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:13:39 Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling
> >>
> >> <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> >> > Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> It seems that the command
> >> >>
> >> >> readcd -c2scan
> >> >>
> >> >> fails on both of my drives for all media types - retail CDs, copies
> >> >> of CDs on CR-R and CD-RW. It always hangs. It hangs at different
> >> >> places if I rerun it.
> >> >
> >> > If it fails with different drives from different manufacturers, try to
> >> > run if from a differnt OS in order to verify whether you are a victim
> >> > of a long term Linux kernal bug that modifies SCSI commands on their
> >> > way to the drive.
> >> >
> >> > Jörg
> >>
> >> Expand please.
> >>
> >> Run it on a different OS? The machine is dual-boot Gentoo/XP but your
> >> site doesn't seem to have an updated Windows version. (Unless it's not
> >> in the win32 directory.)
> >
> > He likely means "Use a Unix that is not Linux. One of the *BSDs perhaps"
> >
> > Unlike most folk here, Linux is to Joerg just another OS. For best
> > response, do the test on Solaris.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. No option for me to do any of the above
> ideas. Available:
>
> Gentoo 64-bit
> Gentoo 32-bit
> Win XP
> Win Vista
> FreeDOS
>
> No idea how to build for the last 3.

*BSD in a vm?

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