CD testing

[Elton Woo]

On July 23, 2003 06:06 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> > in RH 9.  I burned a load of 9.0.93 CDs, and half were bad.  If I
> > remember correctly, I also had some kernel panics while burning music
> > CDs, but I never had any bad data CDs until I burned this beta.
> >
> > I can't think of any reason why this would happen, but has anyone else
> > had any trouble making this beta?

YES. I'm having trouble erasing / writing disks, even with the 'force' flag...
OTH, maybe the particular CD's are a wee bit scratched...??? <*SHRUG*>

> I'd guess because when you updated to a 2.4.20 based kernel for RH9 errata
> you acquired the IDE reset handling bug. If you update to the very
> latest errata of a couple of days ago it should stop panicing on disks
> too
This is my default boot kernel:
kernel-2.4.20-18.9. I'm using Ximian Gnome Desktop2 with all the
trimmings and fixin's.

Elton ;-)
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