On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:30:11AM +0000, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 7:42 pm, Miark wrote: > > > > > >>On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:02:17 -0600 > >>I have never burned a coaster in Linux, and my discs have never been > >>rejected in other drives. And even if it happens, so what? Blank media > >>is so inexpenive that it costs almost nothing to burn another one. > >> > >> > >> > >I think the problem is that we never 'verify' burns. I have once > >accidentally burned at too high a speed. It appeared to finish correctly, > >but when I wanted to use one of the install apps on it I failed. There > >was no indication, but it must have been faulty. It wasn't critical for > >me, because it was only a downloaded antivirus app update, and was easily > >downloaded again, but if it had been critical data I would have been > >b****d. > > > >I agree with the strategy of keeping burns well below 'maximum' speed. > > > >Anne > > > ]# mount /mnt/cdrom > ]# ls /mnt/cdrom > Boot/ Mandrake/ > ]# md5sum /dev/scd0 > <long wait> > md5sum: /dev/scd0: Input/output error > ]# > > > So why did it fail ? > > John
I had the same error last night. I ran "md5sum /dev/cdrom" and the drive powered up and spun for a while and then produced the error. After burning another disc I left it in the burner and tried md5sum /dev/scd0 and the computer froze. Had to do a hard reboot :( . Todd
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