Yes. Since you don't have problems with other media, it's most definitely a media failure, a scratched or dirty surface.Would you say the following points to a media failure, that is a faulty production of this specific disc?
$ ls -l /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX -r--r--r-- 1 root root 717842384 Jan 18 19:36 /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
it gives many messages about
hda: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hda: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
when I dd it to /dev/null. In general it is only partially {readable,useable}. I don't have problems with the very few CD media that I use from time to time. Further more, when I actually try to use it, as opposed to dd it to /dev/null, this particular CD media is sometimes one of 1. readable 2. readable to a useable extent 3. partially readable as to not being useable depending on the boot parameters it is given. I get many error messages with regard to cloop being unable to uncompress sectors, partial reads and so on.
Cheers,
Henry
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