Yes, it would probably be helpful to note this all-too-common pitfall applies to the IDE CDROMs, istead of simply saying "mediacheck is broke, check the archives."
Has anyone has this problem with SCSI? My SCSI CDROM drives on three different controllers have all passed discs with mediacheck, no prob.
v/r
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:11 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx; apitulac@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: FC3 disc1 has error - md5sum is correct
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:23, Adrian Pitulac wrote:
Solved. Testing FC3 distribution CD's with linux ide=nodma option at boot results in a PASS for all cd's. Is there any way of getting the fixed FC3 distribution?
The disks are fine, but there seems to be a bug of some kind in the current ide stuffs, its a workaround only for the install, you can turn it back off once installed as told here previously.
-- Adrian Pitulac Chief Technical Officer InterData Systems 2000, Romania Mobile: +4 0722 854 106
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Pitulac Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:41 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: FC3 disc1 has error - md5sum is correct
I have the same problem also.. I'm pretty sure it's not a burning error because I have tried burning those ISO's on a second CDRW. I have tried with the test function in anaconda all 4 cd's of the FC3 distribution. All were FAIL. I'm trying now to download from other mirror or maybe better from fedora directly. If someone had this problem please tell us ASAP!
Thanks a lot.
-- Adrian Pitulac Chief Technical Officer InterData Systems 2000, Romania Mobile: +4 0722 854 106
I have a SCSI CD-ROM (Toshiba SDM-1702) connected to an Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160 SCSI Host Adapter. I had trouble getting MediaCheck to work with isos that passed the MD5 check. However, I was able to finally get all 5 CDs to pass the MediaCheck. (I was unaware of the FC3 problem, so I just kept burning more discs.) Now I don't know if those first discs had errors or not... The potentially bad CDs were burned in Linux with cdrecord. The good ones were burned in XP with Roxio.
During package installation, I received an error. I don't remember it exactly. It was something along the lines of "Unable to read CD". I hit <Retry> and the install completed without incident. Since UDMA is not (AFAIK) used with SCSI devices, I don't know if this is related. I also don't know if I should be concerned about having a bad installation. So far everything works fine, but it is a desktop system, and I'm not using everything that was installed.
In any event, I thought I'd post since Paul asked about SCSI CD-ROMs...
- Jack Holden
