How to burn Fedora DVDs to avoid readahead bug?

[Andre Robatino]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 09:33 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>   
>> All of my FC DVDs have been written with:
>>
>>         growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/dvd.iso
>>
>> with nary a glitch (no need for read ahead padding, nada).  Burned on
>> multiple machines with different DVD writers, readers, etc. 
>>     
>
> Same here, along with right-clicking on an ISO in Nautilus, and burning
> from there.  Worked fine, including the media check.  I'm using Verbatim
> DVD+R discs.  I've found their discs to be the best that I can buy,
> here.  Much of the discs in the local shops are utter crap.  And + discs
> are supposed to have some advantages over - ones, though that does
> depend on the drive making using of the features.
>
>   
  I believe that most mediacheck failures are caused by the readahead 
bug (although years ago I found that Memorex CDs were so crappy that 
they would literally sometimes go from pass to fail in about 15 hours 
after burning).  I know that some drives (either DVD or CD) are 
vulnerable and some aren't.  Whether the DVD is RW  or just R may also 
matter - as mentioned before I had the problem burning to a DVD+RW using 
growisofs (and I have enough experience with the media in question to 
know that its stability wasn't the problem).  But burning to a DVD+R 
with growisofs seemed to work ok (though it could just have been luck).  
When F7 comes out I'll try growisofs with the DVD+R and cross my 
fingers.  If that doesn't work I'll try finding a newer version of 
cdrecord and see if that works.  I'd be interested in knowing if anyone 
out there can currently burn DVDs using the version of cdrecord in 
either FC6 or F7t4, and whether or not it spews error messages.