On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:05, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When burning CD-ROMs I put 80 sectors of blank padding to deal with crappy > CD-ROM drives. In the past I found that some of my CD-ROM drives would > cause the Media Check to fail if I used a mere 30 sectors of padding and so > I chose 80 as an arbitrary large number to avoid that. The number 80 has > done well in terms of preventing check failures and install errors. Should > I consider the above failure to just be a symptom of an interaction between > Linux and crappy hardware and ignore it? Or is the fact that Linux is > trying to seek so far past the end of the disk due to a bug in either the > kernel or anaconda? I burned a copy of CD 5 with 800 blank sectors at the end and it worked perfectly. I also noticed that CD 2 has the problem (although I hadn't noticed it before), CDs 3 and 4 don't have a problem (I still have to repeat tests on CD 1). I guess that I can work around this problem by specifying a padsize of something between 81 and 800 sectors (if some more friends want copies of FC5 then I'll find out soon). -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
