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From: dr john halewood <john@frumious.unidec.co.uk>
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To: root@chaos.analogic.com, "Dr. Death" <drd@homeworld.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:36:55 +0100
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On Friday 19 April 2002 3:14 pm, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 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?
>
Don't put them in an Xbox in the first place? (see 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992000)

cheers
john
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