Ok...this is a fairly strange problem that I don't even know how to begin fixing. I have Linux Mandrake 8.0 installed on my Thinkpad i1400 laptop. I initially had problem installing off of a CD that a friend burned for me, but I attributed this to a bad downloaded iso image and I downloaded the install straight to my hard drive and installed from the hard drive. Now, I think that the cd is really not corrupted and is related to a problem with my cd-rom operating in Linux. So, after working out most of the kinks in my system, I have really started to use it. My first problem relating to the CD drive has to do with a CD that I had filled with my favorite mp3 songs. In windows, this cd always played fine in Winamp and the songs worked great. However, I noticed that, in Linux, the majority of the songs get cut off anywhere from 30% to 90% of the way through. XMMS just stops playing. KDE Media player also stops in the same spot (Interesting note though, If I fast forward past that spot, the mp3 continues to play fine). I thought that the songs must have been corrupted when they were burned onto the cd, but, like I said, they work fine in windows off of the cd. To try to see if it was a corruption problem, I did a diff on one of the songs that I had on the cd with an identical song on my hard drive. The diff encountered an I/O error when it tried to do the compare. I then tried copying the song to the hard drive from the cd, but the copy stalled at about the same % as the song would stop playing in XMMS and I got a copy error. If I copy the song in windows to the hard drive, then go back into linux and do a diff, the two songs are identical. Also, the copied song plays without error. A similar problem occurs with rpm's. If I try the original burned Linux cd from my friend, most rpm's (but not all) return an error in rpmdrake. However, if I try to install the rpm from the hard drive, everything goes fine. What could be causing this problem??? I'm absolutely clueless as to how to proceed. Any help is much appreciated.
