Linux can't read one sector off of CD

From: Rob French (robert_at_thefrenchfamily.org)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:11:45 GMT

Hello,

The CD-ROM drive in my laptop (actually a combo CD-RW and DVD reader)
seems to fail at a certain sector (correct term?) when reading CD's...

Specifically, I've been ripping a bunch of audio CD's using cdparanoia.
On *every* single CD, somewhere in the vicinity of sector 82397, it
fails. Depending on the options to cdparanoia, it will either retry at
that point ad infinitum, or it will skip. Initially, I thought this was
due to dirty CD's, and I tried cleaning them. Ultimately, of course, I
realized that it was happening at the same spot (approximately the same
sector number) on every CD I tried. The CD's rip just fine when using an
external USB/Firewire drive.

I've tried cleaning the CD drive lens with one of those cleaner CD's,
but that didn't seem to do anything. That also doesn't seem like the
sort of problem that would manifest itself so repeatedly.

My thoughts are:

(1) Some obscure hardware failure in the drive itself.
(2) Some obscure software bug in the driver code that gets loaded for
this particular CD drive.

Any thoughts? Assistance greatly appreciated!

-Rob

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