Re: Not the usual installation media check failures

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On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 13:01 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:35 -0700, Mark wrote:
> >   
> >> All checksums are ok. I burned the ISOs and run media checks on them
> >> on one computer. 2 disks fail.
> >> I run the media check again on another computer and one of the disks
> >> that failed on the first machine passes, however another disk
> >> that passed on the first machine fails on the second machine.
> >>     
> >
> > The first thing that springs to mind is that one PC is better at reading
> > some discs than another.  That can be due to high-speed burns not being
> > as compatible as lower-speed burns.  Could just be the brand of discs
> > and the particular drives.
> >
> >   
> I recall hearing somewhere that the media checker has a bug, where 
> perfectly good media are deemed bad because of a problem with the bios 
> or something. Try to use them anyway, and if they don't crap out, than 
> they are good (enough, anyway ;-) )
> -Steven
> 

I've run into this on occasion, turned out to be finger prints on the
CD. Cleaned them off, and installed just fine.

erich


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