Micah Cowan wrote:
> Some filesystems (vfat, for instance) do not support files with sizes
> greater than 4GiB. Your problem is unlikely to be the source (since it's
> reading only 2KiB at a time); it's much more likely to be the
> destination. What was the filesystem type of the destination to which
> you were copying the images/files?
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
>      Assignee: (unassigned) => Micah Cowan
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
>   
It was an ext3 filesystem, and I'm pretty sure there was plenty of
space when making the image file.  The resulting file was so close
to 4GiB that I doubt it was a coincidence.  When copying files
from DVD to hard disk, there were multiple _read_ errors, one
for each file that couldn't be copied. 

In addition to that, I've had trouble, in the past, with playing DVDs
using Kaffeine under Kubuntu, though the particular DVDs I have at
the moment seem to play okay.  The DVDs played fine under Windoze.

I've been having some difficulty replicating the problem now that
I'm running Edgy and a 2.6.21.1 kernel.  I'll drop back to an earlier
(standard) kernel and let you know what happens ...

The 2.6.21.1 kernel seems to use /dev/scd0 and /media/dvdrecorder
now rather than having /dev/hda and /media/cdrom0 in /etc/fstab.

Dropping back to 2.6.17-11-generic reverts to using /dev/hda, but
doesn't allow me to replicate the problem.  :-(

Maybe it went away with the change to Edgy.

Hmm...  Since Dapper was a LTS release, you'll probably be interested
in nailing this one, assuming it's real.  I could try to reinstall Dapper.
I do have space on the hard drive - a 2GiB partition down low and a
5GiB partition up high, but I'm not sure how to persuade Grub to let
me boot to Edgy, Windoze or the newly (to be) installed Dapper.
The manual page for grub is unhelpful and the (depleted) Texinfo
documentation is no better.

I'm sure I could install Dapper to use /dev/sda2 as /boot and /dev/sda7
as /, but I'm not sure I could then revert to booting Edgy and Windoze.

Any suggestions?

Maybe you could point me towards the rest of the Texinfo docs for Grub.


Regards, Graeme.

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4GiB limit on some DVD reads on Vaio VGN-FE15GP
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