On Friday 13 Mar 2015 17:10:36 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. > > This is what dmesg reveals: > > > > [ 7791.880206] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] > > [ 7791.880211] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > > [ 7791.880215] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] > > [ 7791.880217] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] > > [ 7791.880224] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] > > [ 7791.880229] Add. Sense: Timeout on logical unit > > [ 7791.880233] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: > > [ 7791.880236] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 > > [ 7791.880252] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 > > [...] > > > I tried on different PCs and I am getting the same error. Shall I > > Have you tried it with different CD drives or have you used always the > same (external) drive? If you are testing several CD drives you maybe > will find one that is able to read the damaged CD.
Each PC has its own (internal) drive. No success so far. :-( > > forget about it, or is there some means by which I can recover the > > files on it? > > This depends on how the CD is damaged. If it is damaged by scratches > then you maybe can polish them away. Many years ago I've seen CD polish > sets available in some online shop, but I never tried this out. > > If there are no scratches and it is a self burned CD then I fear you > will have no chance to restore the data. > > I don't know if there is a way to restore the data with some special > software program. Maybe you should search for that on google. > > Good luck. David mentioned in his post that there are products to clean and polish the plastic surface (thanks David!) I can't see any significant scratches and I tried cleaning it with spirit to remove any grease or dirt from its surface. I will try to ask the person who gave it to me to use a different make of CD next time, but this could take some time. -- Regards, Mick
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