Have you confirmed it is still the default on your build host? If the
default has changed then that would explain why there are lots of people
having problems creating CDs. (See the "Getting burned ISO's to pass
mediacheck." thread).
Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> I beg to differ:
>
> man cdrecord (FC2):
> -nopad Do not pad the following tracks - the default.
John.
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:15 +1100, John Newbigin wrote:
>
>>And don't forget to edit mkisopts and add -pad
>
>
> From rom the mkisofs man page:
> ----------------------------
> The padding is needed as many operating systems (e.g. Linux)
> implement read ahead bugs in their filesystem I/O. These bugs
> result in read errors on one or more files that are located at
> the end of a track. They are usually present when the CD is
> written in Track at Once mode or when the disk is written as
> mixed mode CD where an audio track follows the data track.
>
> To avoid problems with I/O error on the last file on the
> filesystem, the -pad option has been made the default.
> ----------------------------
>
> So whatever problem they have, adding -pad should not solve it ... that
> is the default for mkisofs unless you specify "-no-pad"
>
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