Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 08:12: > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:32, alan wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, amazing powers of observation wrote: > > > > > the burning of the iso image on to cd. checking the midsums and all i > > > have found it better to burn the cd at ratio 1 to 1. if you go to fast > > > it blurs the data or looses information. remember burn slow and your > > > install will improve > > > > If that is the case, then you need a new burner. Properly operating > > hardware will not do that. > > > > > Maybe this is a bug I have just installed a brand new 52x writer and if > I cut @ anything over 16x my discs fail, > I swopped the writer three times and the same thing happens, I have > since changed the brand twice and I get the same results on 4 different > systems ranging from my first PC a p3 900 256mb ram > to my new P4 3gig with 1 gig ram. The funny thing is its no linux > because Windoze also does this > > If you say the hardware is not operating properly then there must be a > manufacturing flaw in all these device, which is not impossible. > I will let the manufacturers know (Mitsumi, LG , MSi) > > My 2 cents > Chadley I am sure this is a problem with the CD-R media. Not each CD burner likes each CD-R media, even not at any speed. You should always follow manufacturer advices for tested media and use firmware updates as they insert new calibration data for burner and media. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl Sirendipity 13:08:04 up 2 days, 15:50, load average: 1.06, 1.14, 1.15 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]