On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Andre Robatino wrote: >Tim wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 09:33 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> All of my FC DVDs have been written with: >>> >>> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/dvd.iso >>> >>> with nary a glitch (no need for read ahead padding, nada). Burned on >>> multiple machines with different DVD writers, readers, etc. >> >> Same here, along with right-clicking on an ISO in Nautilus, and burning >> from there. Worked fine, including the media check. I'm using Verbatim >> DVD+R discs. I've found their discs to be the best that I can buy, >> here. Much of the discs in the local shops are utter crap. And + discs >> are supposed to have some advantages over - ones, though that does >> depend on the drive making using of the features. > > I believe that most mediacheck failures are caused by the readahead >bug (although years ago I found that Memorex CDs were so crappy that >they would literally sometimes go from pass to fail in about 15 hours >after burning). I know that some drives (either DVD or CD) are >vulnerable and some aren't. Whether the DVD is RW or just R may also >matter - as mentioned before I had the problem burning to a DVD+RW using >growisofs (and I have enough experience with the media in question to >know that its stability wasn't the problem). But burning to a DVD+R >with growisofs seemed to work ok (though it could just have been luck). >When F7 comes out I'll try growisofs with the DVD+R and cross my >fingers. If that doesn't work I'll try finding a newer version of >cdrecord and see if that works. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone >out there can currently burn DVDs using the version of cdrecord in >either FC6 or F7t4, and whether or not it spews error messages. It is not being a problem here, and I just burnt a new copy of kubuntu last week, on FC6. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The course of true anything never does run smooth. -- Samuel Butler
