Actually, I did verify that the CDs could not be read on my work laptop, which due to company orders, must run Windows XP. I could read some folders. Booting the laptop from the CDs though and running the Red Hat media tests produced consistent failures. Whenever I have tried to install from a CD that failed the media test, I wound up with a failed install too. There are a couple of other suggestions I'll respond to separately. I actually needed to get a new CD-RW anyway. My old one was constantly getting OPC failures using 3 different brands of CDs - Imation, TDK and Verbatim. The new writer passes OPC on all three, so that was certainly a plus. It's also twice as fast, so I have no complaints about spending the $80 for it. Cheers, Chris On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 20:04, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from "Christopher A. Williams" <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:20:56 -0700 > > > I've been following the CD-RW burning issue and have some additional > > input: > > > > I have removed magicdev and turned off autorun. > > > > I went to the store and bought a *brand new* CD-RW - a Memorex internal > > IDE 52x/24x/52x beauty. Installed it and started burning CDs at speeds > > ranging from 6x to 32x. > > > > Result: Both XCDRoast and GNOME Toaster produced burned CDs with no > > errors - BUT the disks were not fully readable! I burned Red Hat CDs > > (Phoebe 3 and 8.0) from ISO images. Media tests failed on ALL with > > impressive consistency. > > > > OK - I've now sunk about $100 and several hours into this personally > > just to verify it's a nasty problem. So far, I have a new CDRW and a > > pile of Verbatim DataLife Plus 32X brand coasters to show for it. Ideas > > welcome. > > Sorry to hear of the unnecessary expense. But as a last ditch, why not take the supposed coasters to another CD reader and see if they can be read? > > jb -- ==================================== "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' someone else's dog around." --Cowboy Wisdom -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
