by Ok...this is a fairly strange problem that I don't even know how to
begin fixing. I have Linux Mandrake 8.0 installed on my Thinkpad
i1400 laptop. I initially had problem installing off of a CD that a
friend burned for me, but I attributed this to a bad downloaded iso
image and I downloaded the install straight to my hard drive and
installed from the hard drive. Now, I think that the cd is really not
corrupted and is related to a problem with my cd-rom operating in
Linux.
Now, after working out most of the kinks in my system, I have really
started to use it. My first problem relating to the CD drive has to
do with a CD that I had filled with my favorite mp3 songs. In
windows, this cd always played fine in Winamp and the songs worked
great. However, I noticed that, in Linux, the majority of the songs
get cut off anywhere from 30% to 90% of the way through. XMMS just
stops playing. KDE Media player also stops in the same spot. I
thought that the songs must have been corrupted when they were burned
onto the cd, but, like I said, they work fine in windows off of the
cd. To try to see if it was a corruption problem, I did a diff on one
of the songs that I had on the cd with an identical song on my hard
drive. The diff encountered an I/O error when it tried to do the
compare. I then tried copying the song to the hard drive from the cd,
but the copy stalled at about the same % as the song would stop
playing in XMMS and I got a copy error. If I copy the song in windows
to the hard drive, then go back into linux and do a diff, the two
songs are identical. What could be causing this problem??? I'm
absolutely clueless as to how to proceed. Any help is much
appreciated.
Note: I have heard that this may be related to supermount. I have
heard a lot of people complain about it. The only thing that makes me
believe it's not supermount related is that most people who say
supermount sucks also can't get their cd-rom drives to work. However,
mine is detected and works. The songs and some files just get cut off
or encounter read errors. Could this be a supermount problem or is it
something else?