CD verify on FC5 disc 5.

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Mar 22 21:52:12 UTC 2006


Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com>:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 22:35 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> 
> > I burned a copy of CD 5 with 800 blank sectors at the end and it worked 
> > perfectly.  I also noticed that CD 2 has the problem (although I hadn't 
> > noticed it before), CDs 3 and 4 don't have a problem (I still have to repeat 
> > tests on CD 1).
> > 
> > I guess that I can work around this problem by specifying a padsize of 
> > something between 81 and 800 sectors (if some more friends want copies of FC5 
> > then I'll find out soon).
> 
> Ok, so... what CD drive do you have, what type of bus is it on, and what
> controller is in use?

I can't answer that question, but I can tell you that the -pad 800 solved
this same problem for the exceedingly generic ATAPI CD-ROM drive on my Opteron
box.  This workaround is probably generally applicable, and I'm going to
put it in my Fedora Core customization FAQ.
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