media check fail

Bob Parker bposs at dodo.com.au
Fri Jun 24 05:08:50 UTC 2005


FC4 User wrote:
> On Thursday 23 June 2005 14:45, Aristos Vasiliou wrote:
> 
>>> I'm new to fedora core, though I have used redhat a few years back.
>>>
>>> I have downloaded the first iso image of fedora core 4 four times until
>>> today, burned the cd's, and every time I run the media check, I get a 
>>> big
>>> "FAIL" <snip>
>>>
> You might also try issuing the 'cdrecord' command with the options '-dao 
> -pad', like so:
>       cdrecord -dao -pad -v speed=whatever dev=whichever image-file.iso
> 
> Supposedly, this will prevent the media check error.

I doubt that very much, other information suggest that the media 
check failure is because of incorrect dma settings on the cd reader 
device.

Padding will cause the sha1sum test of the burnt iso to fail unless 
you  specify the correct sector count to readcd.

Bob




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