Can't read CD in linux, can in xp:Solved

[Joel Hammer]

Well, solved this problem.
I reburned the CD.  I limited the burn speed to 8x, not 40x as was the
default. Then I could read it in linux.
Dunno why windows could read it and not linux, but all I care is: It works.
Joel

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:37:48PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> At work I created a data cd with images, large and small (300kb up to
> 33 megs), with easy CD creator or some such.  I ran the option to make
> the cd readable by all cd readers. This was on windows 2000.
> 
> At home, this disk refuses to load properly with caldera 2.4 on one box
> and lindows on a second box. The transfer just sorta gives up, with the
> few images that got transferred having file errors. I double boot xp on
> the second machine, so I booted into xp, and the images transferred OK
> to the hard drive. And, they are readible when I boot back into lindows
> and read them off the windows hard drive. So, it's not the cdrom rom, and
> the images appear to be intact after being transferred up with xp. 
> 
> So, the question is, what happened? Why can't linux read this cd?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
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