On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:23 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > Advice and assistance gratefully received, > > Find the Linux kernel IDE maintainer, and shoot him. Literally. > Then perhaps someone else will fix the kernel bug [on the READ side] > that causes this misery. It's been there for over TWO YEARS. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131858 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106685 > ide-scsi work[ed], but the maintainer of the ide driver > just cannot bear the thought of fixing this bug. > Yes, the specification of CD-ROM {media + hardware} allows too > much room to create the problem (end-of-recorded-data cannot > be detected reliably to a precision of one 2KB sector), > but ide-scsi dealt with it, and the current ide driver does not. > > Instead of using sha1sum to verify, use > dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | cmp - FC5-test1-i386-discN.iso > and check the return code from cmp only, ignoring any complaints > from dd. Thanks for the information, I'll try you suggestion. Maybe there should be a Bugzilla status AWAITING HOMICIDE? -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list