[Nottingham] CD burning woes

[Martin Garton]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 23:31 +0100, Godfrey Nix wrote:

> Questions -
> are old (ie over 9 months since buying them) CDs no use any more?
> is the test media on Fedora core 4 broken and the images are really ok?
> am I trying to copy more onto the CD than its actual capacity?

The test is only likely to pass if:

a) you used the "-pad" option of cdrecord when burning them.

OR

b) ide-scsi is used to perform the mediacheck (which for fc4, it is not
I believe)

You may be able to force ide-scsi by using booting with "hdc=scsi" or
similar (I can't remember the syntax because I haven't used it for ages)

For some drives the above conditions do not seem to matter and passes
anyway.  I believe that it is a kernel bug in 2.6.x that only appears
when directly accessing certain ide-cd devices.  Accessing via a
filesystem does not trigger the bug though AFAIK, so most normal use
will be fine.

-- 
Martin.