[lug] hard drive that seems to be corrupting data

[Hugh Brown]

I used two, xmms and mpg123.  It seems that the CD was having
difficulties and swapping it out seems to have solved the problem.

Thanks for the help.


Doug Wendel wrote:
> 
> Related to this problem, I've noticed that using certain MP3 players
> (notably the Windows Media Player) has caused this to happen. It's like it's
> hard-clipping the stream, even though it should be clean. I switched to
> Winamp and everything is fine. So, try another MP3 player and see what
> happens.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Hugh Brown
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 7:07 PM
> To: Blug
> Subject: [lug] hard drive that seems to be corrupting data
> 
> I inherited a 3.2 gig IBM Deskstar after helping someone upgrade their
> computer.  I figured it would be a nice repository for my mp3's.  When I
> try to copy the mp3's from some CDR's that I made, the mp3's get squeaks
> and squelches in them and use cause the program I am using to play them
> to die.  I checked for bad blocks on the mkfs command and it didn't seem
> to turn up anything.  When I copy them to the other drive, they copy
> fine.
> 
> Any ideas on what might be wrong?
> 
> Hugh
> 
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