cd burning question

[Kevin D. Clark]

Lately when I burn Fedora ISOs to CD I get a strange error.   When I
boot the disk I am offered the opportunity to do a media test.  So, I
run this test and it always fails, for all of the CDs.

However, I have seen this exact test work with CDs burned by other
people.  Unfortunately, I don't know how they burned these CDs.

So, what I am I doing wrong?

Oh, by the way, my Fedora Core 4 disks, even though they failed the
media check, still installed fine on one of my test boxes.


System: 3Ghz Pentium 4, Fedora Core 1, the box itself is hardly doing
anything.  I've even tried buring at "speed=4" for laughs.




[root at foo stentz-binary-i386]# nice -17 cdrecord -v -speed=16 -dev2,0,0 -data FC4-i386-disc1.iso
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 J\x{FFFF}rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '2,0,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c        1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : '_NEC    '
Identifikation : 'DVD+RW ND-2100AD'
Revision       : '103D'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x001B
Profile: 0x001A
Profile: 0x0010
Profile: 0x000A
Profile: 0x0009 (current)
Profile: 0x0008 (current)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1343488 = 1312 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   634 MB
Total size:      728 MB (72:12.28) = 324921 sectors
Lout start:      729 MB (72:14/21) = 324921 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -12369 (97:17/06)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 69
Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
The information for this media may not be correct.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 34928
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:  634 of  634 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  16.3x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 665434112/665434112 (324919 sectors).
Writing  time:  279.498s
Average write speed  15.8x.
Min drive buffer fill was 100%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   23.896s
cdrecord: fifo had 10482 puts and 10482 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 8877 times full, min fill was 4%.


Any ideas would be appreciated,

--kevin
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