Media test failure on CDs burnt from ISO file at 99%

[Rick Stevens]

Graeme Nichols wrote:
> stuart wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 05 February 2005 04:05, Graeme Nichols wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hello Folks,
>>>
>>> I know this has been discussed innumerable times here but I have a
>>> somewhat different problem.
>>>
>>> I finally decided to bite the bullet and install (upgrade) from FC2 to
>>> FC3. I had burnt the CDs some time ago using Nero Burning Rom SE under
>>> Win XP SP2. I checked them at the time by making sure there was a file
>>> system on the CDs.
>>>
>>> I put CD1 in my drive and booted to the FC3 boot screen, hit 'Enter' and
>>> Linux and the USB and firewire drivers loaded etc.
>>>
>>> I then proceeded to test the CDs. All 4 of them tested to 99% then the
>>> drive slowed down, Linux sat there for a while then returned a 'Fail'.
>>> All 4 of the CDs failed at 99%.
>>>
>>> I tried burning a couple of other Disk 1 ISOs to CD including ticking
>>> the box that said something like 'Finish the CD, no more writing' or
>>> similar and burning from the DVD the ISOs came on (Australian Personal
>>> Computer magazine DVD) as well as from the ISO copied from the DVD to
>>> Hard Disk. No joy! Same failure when testing the CD.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else come across a similar problem, and if so, what is the
>>> remedy?
>>>
>>> Very frustrating! I am not prepared to do an upgrade until I can get the
>>> media test to complete successfully, for obvious reasons.
>>>   
>>
>> This is a known issue with FC3 cds:
>> try booting from CD1 and typing
>> linux mediacheck nocddma
>> at the boot: prompt
>> good references for other issues:
>> http://www.fedorafaq.org/
>> http://www.fedoranews.org/
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Stuart
>>
> Hello Stuart, the boot argument 'linux mediacheck nocddma' does NOT work 
> on my system. I get exactly the same problem. My system is P4 3Ghz, 
> 512Mb RAM, two optical drives (1 DVD writer, 1 DVD reader) , Radeon 9800 
> XXL video card, 200Ghz hda (Win XP SP2), 40Ghz hdb (Linux FC2) and all 
> the usual hardware. Booting from either optical drive results in the 
> same problem.
> 
> I checked out the links you gave and I can see nothing else on this 
> problem. Do you have any other tips to getting past this problem?

You did burn these on 700MB media, right?  The disks are rather full and
will fail if you used 650MB blank media.

You can also try "linux nodma mediacheck" to disable DMA completely.
> 


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