[ltp] DVD/CD trouble, and my experience with IBM tech support

[Tom Grydeland]

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Dean Hedin wrote:

> >     The problem I experienced was that reading large files from a mounted
> >     CD would sooner or later run into a wall, the DVD player obtaining data
> >     only *very* slowly, and with the drive "grinding" incessantly --
> >     bzzt, bzzt, pause, repeat.  
> 
> Just an FYI,  This is the symtom that I get when the CD is bad/poor quality.
> Hoping you can repeat the problem with another/different type of CD.
> 
> These laptop CD/DVD units seem to be sensitive.  I've had CDR's that I could
> read just fine in my desktop machine and would not read reliably on my 600e.

Just a few followup questions on that:

 o what happens for the CDs you can't "read reliably"?
   - can you mount them?
   - can you read *any* data off of them?
   - for the data you *can* read properly, do you have any problems?
   - when you get into "grinding", do you get any data at all?
    + if so, is this data correct?
 o what CDs can you read?

Thanks,

-- 
//Tom Grydeland <Tom.Grydeland@phys.uit.no>

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