On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 13:01 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:35 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > >> All checksums are ok. I burned the ISOs and run media checks on them > >> on one computer. 2 disks fail. > >> I run the media check again on another computer and one of the disks > >> that failed on the first machine passes, however another disk > >> that passed on the first machine fails on the second machine. > >> > > > > The first thing that springs to mind is that one PC is better at reading > > some discs than another. That can be due to high-speed burns not being > > as compatible as lower-speed burns. Could just be the brand of discs > > and the particular drives. > > > > > I recall hearing somewhere that the media checker has a bug, where > perfectly good media are deemed bad because of a problem with the bios > or something. Try to use them anyway, and if they don't crap out, than > they are good (enough, anyway ;-) ) > -Steven > I've run into this on occasion, turned out to be finger prints on the CD. Cleaned them off, and installed just fine. erich
