On 04/01/2015 02:18 PM, jd1008 wrote: > After burning 3 DVD's, and reading them back to compute sha256sum. > all three of them generated these error messages during readback, > and all 3 messages show the error was past the 4gb offset. > > Is this a media issue or is it the burner? 1- burn dvd at 2 speeds lower than what you used and had failure. if ok, problem is either burner or blanks. 2- burn dvd at failure speed on a different burner. if ok, get a new burner. if failure, may be blanks. 3- try different program or burn from command line. > A side question: why does the block io layer assume that all media > have 512 byte sectors? i believe that is a carry over from disk formatting started by the IBM PC. [do not hold me to that] -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org