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What SCSI card are you using?, What drivers, are you shadowing the BIOS, where is the shadow located? Is it being stepped on by another user, you know, the usual...


As Peter pointed out, even though it showed as SCSI in the Properties dialog box, it really is a SATA drive.

When it reaches those outermost tracks, I can hear the heads doing large seeks trying to read the data. Makes me think it is likely a hardware issue. I get the same symptoms using Windows Media Player just trying to play (not rip) the outer tracks.

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