[paranoia] failure at certain sector

[Zach Beane - MINT]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 01:47:16AM -0800, Monty wrote:
> > 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.

Bad in what way? Intentionally screwed up for the purposes of extraction?
It does seem to play fine in my standalone CD player...

Zach

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