On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, dep wrote: > greets, folks! > > this one is kind of weird. i have a cd, burned by a friend, containing > data in mbox format that i really need to get to. > > i can open the cd in, say, midnight commander, and can view the files, > no problem. but if i try to copy those files to the hard drive, i get > an "input/output" problem error. > > any idea what in the world this might be about?
A bad CD, or failing HW. Something is failing when attempting to read or write the data. How are you copying the data? If not with the command line, then i'd suggest trying that, and checking dmesg or messages for useful errors. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
