🚀 go-pugleaf

I've just upgraded my Linux system this weekend, and one of the things
I added was an IDE CDROM. Everything seems to be working fine except
for one very annoying problem that I can't even begin to work out the
cause of.

I can read "small" files from the CD with no problems, but "large"
files seem to cause a problem. I'm stil trying to work out the line
between "small" and "large".

The problem is this. If I copy a "large" tgz file, and then try to
(t)est or or e(x)tract the contents, it will get so far and then come
up with "tar: Skipping to next file header...". The file I've copied
is the correct length, but it seems as if the file has possibly become
corrupted during the read and/or the copy. As I say, I can read a
large file with tar on the CD, or I can copy it and the same will
happen.

Has anyone seen this kind of problem before, or do you know what the
cause would be?

IDE devices (as found during bootup) in the machine are:

hda: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A, 406MB w/64KB Cache, 
                        CHS=826/16/63, MaxMult=64
hdb: Conner Peripherals 540MB - CFS540A, 516MB w/64KB Cache, LBA, 
                        CHS=1050/16/63, MaxMult=16
hdc: FUJITSU M1636TAU, 1226MB w/128KB Cache, LBA, CHS=2490/16/63, MaxMult=16
hdd: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5602B, ATAPI, CDROM drive

I'm currently running Slackware 3.0 1.2.13 kernel. Part of the reason
for this upgrade (including the third hard drive which is also new)
was so I could play with one of the new 2.0.x distributions (either
RedHat or Debian probably) and then "move over". However, with a CDROM
drive that only seems to be able to read "small" files, that's gonna
be tricky.

Thanks in advance for any help or assistance you can provide.

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