On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:34:50PM +0000, Frank Petitjean wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer <at> antioche.eu.org> writes:
> 
> 
> > 
> > No, I don't think so. The drive is really saying it can't get the data.
> > I don't think it can be a driver problem.
> > 
> 
> I can copy the files from the cd to a Linux system and then untar them (with 
> the tar command line) and find back what is inside.
> 
> Same problem with NetBSD 1.6, PCBSD, DestopBSD.
> 
> Is there a CD format that is not supported by BSDs ? (I used a CD-RW and DVD+RW 
> for DesktopBSD)

No, the error message is really reported by the drive, it's a drive issue.
Now I'm not sure what would linux do, which we don't. Maybe something in
the area of power management, or silently retrying failed commands (but
the drive's firmware is supposed to do retries already)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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