Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files

[dr john halewood]

On Friday 19 April 2002 3:14 pm, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> So what do you suggest? You can see from the logs that the device
> is having difficulty  reading your damaged CD. You can do what
> Windows-95 does (ignore the errors and pretend everything is fine),
> or what Windows-98 and Windows-2000/Prof does (blue-screen, and re-boot),
> or you can try like hell to read the files like Linux does. What do you
> suggest?
>
Don't put them in an Xbox in the first place? (see 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992000)

cheers
john