On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 21:56, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 07 October 2002 08:47 pm, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:17:49 -0500, Balandar Magister Officiarum wrote: > > > Where did you download your ISO's from? For some reason I have been > > > unable to burn a cd correctly once. Every time I run media check it > > > says Fail. Even when I run it on different computers. Are there any > > > programs out there that can test whether you burn a cd correctly or > > > not? Maybe something that changes all 0's to 1's or every other bit > > > and then scans the cd for errors? > > > > Did you verify your downloaded ISO images with md5sum[.exe] and > > compare the MD5 fingerprints with those in the MD5SUMS file? > > Just as an additional data point, my cd burner (Acer 12x8x32 IDE) doesn't > appear to handle DAO mode properly (Or I am doing it improperly, which is > always a possibility). I am unable to get the md5sum from any cd I've > burned. Because of this, any disk I burn fails the media check, however > I've had no problem installing from these disks. I just verify the md5sum > on the ISO's, and trust cdrecord to do the "Right Thing", since short of > buying a new burner, I don't have another option. # cdrecord -v -dao -eject dev=0,0,0 speed=12 your_image_here.iso (get the dev= from 'cdrecord -scanbus') Does the output indicate you can't do dao? If not, it's time to get a new burner. -- Chris Kloiber
