[paranoia] failure at certain sector

[Monty]

> I have a CD I'm trying to rip with cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13,
> 1999), and it dies at a certain sector and won't rip anything past it. The
> progressbar just gives constant "V" marks, with the smiley going through
> painful-looking 8-| :-P contortions.
> 
> I've had the same problem with this disc on plextor PX-R820T SCSI drive and
> an ASUS 40x IDE drive, at the same place on the disc.
> 
> Does anyone know what might be causing this, and if I can fix it somehow?
> The disc, FWIW, is Mos Def - Black on Both Sides.

Having three (very different) drives produce the same results is a good
indication the disc is just bad.  There's not much that can be done about that
:-(  Any extraction will be imperfect.

Monty

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