[ale] Is this just a bad link?

[Chris Fowler]

I bought my wife a new laptop, with no CD drive, and am now copying a program off of CD onto USB so she can install a program. 

I see a link, but I can't read it under Linux. What is it? Do I need to load a module? 



[10332.385222] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 
[10332.385251] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 
[10332.387979] ISO 9660 Extensions: IEEE_P1282 
chris at mechonis:~$ cd /mnt/usb/ 
chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$ ls -l 
ls: cannot read symbolic link 'applications': Input/output error 
total 114892 
lrwxr-xr-x 1 501 dialout 13 Feb 25 2013 applications 
-rw----rw- 1 501 dialout 93 Sep 20 2012 autorun.inf 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dialout 0 Feb 25 2013 comappletimemachine.supported 
-rwxrwxrwx 1 501 dialout 1314 Dec 21 2012 copyright.txt 
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 20 2013 drivers 
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 25 2013 dropdmgbackground 
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Feb 25 2013 'silhouette studioapp' 
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 dialout 117640072 Feb 25 2013 silhouette_studio.exe 
chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$ cat applications 
cat: applications: Input/output error 
chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$ file applications 
applications: unreadable symlink `applications' (Input/output error) 
chris at mechonis:/mnt/usb$ 
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