dvd drive or driver?

[Karl Larsen]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> I'm been noticing a weird thing lately:
>
> When I first put in a DVD that has a lot of files (backup
> stuff I'm sorting through), everything seems readable.
>
> If I let the DVD spin down, take a while looking at some
> of the stuff I got off it, then come back to look at
> additional files, sometimes the files near "the end" of
> the dvd start appearing truncated.
>
> This seems to creep up the disk, with more and more files
> becoming apparently corrupted the more cycles I go through
> of leaving the disk alone for a while.
>
> If I then eject the disk and remount it, everything comes
> back :-).
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone? (I'm on x86_64 fedora 8).
>
>   
    I am on F8 i386 and do not see that problem looking at the f8 dvd in 
the directory with all the rpm files. I would think that the DVD 
hardware needs to run when you try to look further down in the 
directory. At least mine does. I see partial file names but then the DVD 
light comes on and it fixes the file names.

Karl


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