FC3 disc1 has error - md5sum is correct

[Jack Holden]

Shaffer Paul wrote:
> Yes, it would probably be helpful to note this all-too-common pitfall applies to the IDE CDROMs, istead of simply saying "mediacheck is broke, check the archives."
> 
> Has anyone has this problem with SCSI?  My SCSI CDROM drives on three different controllers have all passed discs with mediacheck, no prob.
> 
> v/r  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:11 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com; apitulac at b.astral.ro
> Subject: Re: FC3 disc1 has error - md5sum is correct
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:23, Adrian Pitulac wrote:
> 
>>Solved. Testing FC3 distribution CD's with linux ide=nodma option at
>>boot results in a PASS for all cd's.
>>Is there any way of getting the fixed FC3 distribution?
>>
> 
> The disks are fine, but there seems to be a bug of some kind in the 
> current ide stuffs, its a workaround only for the install, you can 
> turn it back off once installed as told here previously.
> 
> 
>>--
>>Adrian Pitulac
>>Chief Technical Officer
>>InterData Systems 2000, Romania
>>Mobile: +4 0722 854 106
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Pitulac
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:41 PM
>>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: Re: FC3 disc1 has error - md5sum is correct
>>
>>I have the same problem also.. I'm pretty sure it's not a burning
>>error because I have tried burning those ISO's on a second CDRW. I
>>have tried with the test function in anaconda all 4 cd's of the FC3
>>distribution. All were FAIL. I'm trying now to download from other
>>mirror or maybe better from fedora directly. If someone had this
>>problem please tell us ASAP!
>>
>>Thanks a lot.
>>
>>--
>>Adrian Pitulac
>>Chief Technical Officer
>>InterData Systems 2000, Romania
>>Mobile: +4 0722 854 106
> 
> 

I have a SCSI CD-ROM (Toshiba SDM-1702) connected to an Adaptec 19160 
Ultra 160 SCSI Host Adapter.  I had trouble getting MediaCheck to work 
with isos that passed the MD5 check.  However, I was able to finally get 
all 5 CDs to pass the MediaCheck.  (I was unaware of the FC3 problem, so 
I just kept burning more discs.)  Now I don't know if those first discs 
had errors or not...  The potentially bad CDs were burned in Linux with 
cdrecord.  The good ones were burned in XP with Roxio.

During package installation, I received an error.  I don't remember it 
exactly.  It was something along the lines of "Unable to read CD".  I 
hit <Retry> and the install completed without incident.  Since UDMA is 
not (AFAIK) used with SCSI devices, I don't know if this is related.  I 
also don't know if I should be concerned about having a bad 
installation.  So far everything works fine, but it is a desktop system, 
and I'm not using everything that was installed.

In any event, I thought I'd post since Paul asked about SCSI CD-ROMs...

- Jack Holden