Hi Im running Debian Lenny, basically I have a history of scratching DVD's and I recently bought Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which I plan to install and play on my windows box. anyway the point is for some reason the disc keeps giving out CRC errors on files that clearly have no CRC errors (the forums revealed a known issue with these disks not working in certain DVD drives). I tried to make an ISO of it in Windows using Sonic! Recordnow, planning to use Daemon Tools to mount the ISO and run it liek that - thus avoiding scratching teh original disc - but it stops halfway through complaing the disk is scratched or damaged or has CRC errors. The disk by the way is brand new out of teh box and has no mark on it at all.
My Lenny machine has a DVD rom in it so I thought I'd try creating an ISO of it using the "dd" command and seeing if it fell over at the same point, but no it didnt, this time it completed and I have (or at least had, until I deleted it out of frustration, a full 7.7Gb IS image of the original DVD. The problem is when i tried to copy this iso file from the local disc (which still had a good 5 or 6 gig free space on it, not that this is relevant?) to my USB Hard disk - a MyBook with over 415Gb free space. The goal being to put the file back on the Windows box where i half another half terrabyte in SATA disk space to host the ISO, mount it in Daemon Tools, and hopefully play the game. Yet the file copy stops at about thr 4 gig mark and says "Error: File Too Big". I dont know why the file would be too big as there is masses of space on the MyBook - is there some sort of maximum file size that Linux can copy? The only other theory I have is that somehow Linux is caching the file locally as it copies it and therefore running out of space, why it would do this I dont know, so I think that theory's probably bunkum. Any ideas how i can split the file in two so I can get it onto the MyBook and presumably re-join it again later? -- ***** Richard Forth
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