[TUHS] Panic! - Unix System Crash Dump Analysis companion CD-ROM

[segaloco via TUHS]

Bounced for Greg below:

On Monday, April 6th, 2026 at 23:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:

> I've been having difficulties with the TUHS mailing list.  Warren is
> informed.  If you get this directly but not from the list, could you
> bounce it, please?
> 
> On Monday,  6 April 2026 at 14:43:29 +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> > On 27/03/2026 05:05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >> OK, I've tried in a different system and got the same errors, so it's
> >> the CD.  But strangely I could mount it, and I've made a tar archive
> >> of it:http://lax.lemis.com/grog/panic-cdrom.tar.  It's only 1722 kB
> >> in size.  I can untar it and get the files, but of course I can't
> >> confirm that they're correct.  Can you compare?
> >
> > Thanks for digging in, Greg.
> > Unfortunately your URL never worked for me.
> 
> Sorry, it got removed automatically, presumably too soon for you.
> It's there again now, and I'll leave it there for a while longer.
> 
> > A kind person sent me an archive from their CD, off-list, which I've posted
> > on my site.
> > Just to be helpful to scrapers, the file is up at
> > /files/panic-cdrom-files.zip on the domain of my email address, accessible
> > via HTTPS :-)
> 
> I've downloaded it and compared.  All the files are the same and have
> the same contents, so I assume that they're (both) correct.
> 
> On Monday,  6 April 2026 at 22:03:18 +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> > On 06/04/2026 14:43, Sevan Janiyan via TUHS wrote:
> >> A kind person sent me an archive from their CD, off-list, which I've
> >> posted on my site.
> >
> > Forgot to say, they also had read issues with the disk too. They removed the
> > disk from the book's sleeve for the first time to grab the files so it may
> > be that there was a mastering problem with the CDs as it's the 3rd
> > occurrence?!?
> 
> Sounds just like what I did.  I wonder how many people actually used
> the CD at the time.
> 
> On Monday,  6 April 2026 at 22:17:52 +0000, segaloco wrote:
> > On Monday, April 6th, 2026 at 14:03, Sevan Janiyan via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> >> On 06/04/2026 14:43, Sevan Janiyan via TUHS wrote:
> >>> A kind person sent me an archive from their CD, off-list, which I've
> >>> posted on my site.
> >>
> >> Forgot to say, they also had read issues with the disk too. They removed
> >> the disk from the book's sleeve for the first time to grab the files so
> >> it may be that there was a mastering problem with the CDs as it's the
> >> 3rd occurrence?!?
> >
> > Weird disk that isn't a straightforward single track ISO9660?  I
> > used to run into that all the time with preserving optical media for
> > game consoles.  Our goto in that scene was bin/cue for funky optical
> > media.
> 
> Possibly.  As I said, I had issues mounting it, but I could still read
> the files.  That suggests that it's not age-related deterioration, but
> some incompatibility.  If you have any ideas about how to investigate,
> I'd be interested.
> 
> Greg
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