can't make iso image

[Lowell Gilbert]

"T.F. Cheng" <tfcheng at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi, 
>   I want to make ISO image in order to burn a CD, but
> both mkisofs and vcdimager failed to do so, mkisofs
> reported as: 
> >>mkisofs: Input/output error. cannot read from
> foo.mpg
> while vcdimager said: 
> >>**ERROR: fread (): Input/output error
> but other files have no problem making ISO by the 2
> apps. 
> 
> 
> This is on freebsd/i386, 5.4pre-release.

Is the file readable by anything?
Try tarring it up to somewhere else on your hard disk...