What I ended up doing was using hdparm -E1 to set the drive-speed to 1.  

Unfortunately, this didn't work either.  My last ditch attempt is to hook up 
the drive that burned the CD (yes, I still have it), and try to read the disk.

After that, I'm giving up.

David


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:47:10 -0500
Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The player should do that automatically, but forcing it won't hurt.  
> 
> If your player won't do 1x, you might try one that will.  My most dependable 
> CD is an old Sony 1x that's at least eight years old.  I put a 1x SCSI onto 
> my gateway to unarchive old CDs.  It worked well too and there were no CDs 
> that it would not read.  
> 
> You still might have problems though.  My CDs, by good fortune, were all in 
> good condition.  By plan and chance they are also redundant.  
> 
> 
> On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:57 pm, Jim Carter wrote:
> > Read it at 1x.
> >
> > Jim
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