On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Paul Hartman<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Joerg > Schilling<[email protected]> wrote: >> cdrtools compile fine under Cygwin and there are precompiled binaries from >> various sides. > > For example: > > http://www.student.tugraz.at/thomas.plank/ > >
Thanks Paul. I found a couple of sites with stuff like this but didn't try installing because I hate Windows installs where I don't think I know what's going on. I use these Windows machines to trade futures and don't want some lame brain installer to mess up my system. You know Windows. It's a mess and dangerous to install anything. I liked the Cygwin idea, even if it's not simple, because it seems that there's no odd Windows stuff getting installed other than Cygwin itself which I think is just a dll or two. Since Joerg has suggested that the problem is a combination of a long standing bug in the kernel (Really? That sort of thing is allowed to propagate?) combined with my drives which are Lite-On and Joerg says they have bad firmware, it seems to deal with the hang-up running readcd I need to do the work on this specific machine. On the other hand, if all I want to work on is the original topic - the bad CD copies - then I guess I could do that anywhere and it would be easier to just grab another Gentoo machine as it will have other drives. Anyway, thanks, Mark
