test3 mediacheck still brain dead

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Wed Oct 15 04:09:25 UTC 2003


I am having problems with the mediacheck feature also. It seems flaky: 
it will reject a CD and then pass it if you test it again with no 
changes other than re-inserting it in the drive.

Bob


Andre Robatino wrote:

>>On Oct 13, 2003, Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  I essentially just used "cdrecord file.iso".  I notice now that cdrecord
>>>has a "-pad" option, but knowing almost nothing about burning CDs, it didn't
>>>occur to me to use it.
>>
>>-pad fixed the problem for me, but I didn't have to use it before.  A
>>CD burned without -pad works with Shrike's kernel, but not with Severn
>>kernels.
>>
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106685 has the details
> 
> 
>   I reburned the CDs using cdrecord with the -pad option.  The mediacheck
> now passes with disks 1 and 2, but still fails with disk 3.  I'm not
> absolutely sure that it's not really a bad CD, though I checked all three
> disks at work with the dd trick before bringing them home.  I burned them
> on a Sun Solaris machine with Cdrecord 1.9.
> 
> 
>>Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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>>Free Software Evangelist                Professional serial bug killer
> 
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