Not sure if this is relevant, but the Mybook is a Fat32 Filesystem, its not
a Fat32 limitation is it?


2009/6/5 Richard Forth <[email protected]>

> Hi
>
> Im running Debian Lenny, basically I have a history of scratching DVD's and
> I recently bought Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which I plan to
> install and play on my windows box. anyway the point is for some reason the
> disc keeps giving out CRC errors on files that clearly have no CRC errors
> (the forums revealed a known issue with these disks not working in
> certain DVD drives). I tried to make an ISO of it in Windows using Sonic!
> Recordnow, planning to use Daemon Tools to mount the ISO and run it liek
> that - thus avoiding scratching teh original disc - but it stops halfway
> through complaing the disk is scratched or damaged or has CRC errors. The
> disk by the way is brand new out of teh box and has no mark on it at all.
>
> My Lenny machine has a DVD rom in it so I thought I'd try creating an ISO
> of it using the "dd" command and seeing if it fell over at the same point,
> but no it didnt, this time it completed and I have (or at least had, until I
> deleted it out of frustration, a full 7.7Gb IS image of the original DVD.
>
> The problem is when i tried to copy this iso file from the local disc
> (which still had a good 5 or 6 gig free space on it, not that this is
> relevant?) to my USB Hard disk - a MyBook with over 415Gb free space. The
> goal being to put the file back on the Windows box where i half another half
> terrabyte in SATA disk space to host the ISO, mount it in Daemon Tools, and
> hopefully play the game.
>
> Yet the file copy stops at about thr 4 gig mark and says "Error: File Too
> Big".
>
> I dont know why the file would be too big as there is masses of space on
> the MyBook - is there some sort of maximum file size that Linux can copy?
> The only other theory I have is that somehow Linux is caching the file
> locally as it copies it and therefore running out of space, why it would do
> this I dont know, so I think that theory's probably bunkum.
>
> Any ideas how i can split the file in two so I can get it onto the MyBook
> and presumably re-join it again later?
>
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> Richard Forth
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