How to burn Fedora DVDs to avoid readahead bug?

[Gene Heskett]

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.


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