test3 mediacheck still brain dead

[Thad Peck]

Andre,

Are you by chance saving to SCSI disks?  Try setting your SCSI channel 
speed down if so.

tp

  Robatino wrote:
>   I just burned the test3 ISOs.  (In case you're wondering how I got them
> so fast, if you peruse Red Hat's list of mirrors, you can usually find one
> or two that are prematurely open.)  I couldn't find a GPG-signed MD5SUM
> file, but all the unsigned ones I found agreed.  After downloading the ISOs,
> I checked the md5 sums, burned the CDs, and then checked the md5 sum on the
> CD directly using the dd trick.  Everything checked.  Then when I brought
> the disks home and did the mediacheck, the exact same thing happened as
> with test2 - disks 1, 2, and 3 failed, passed, and failed, resp.  This didn't
> happen with test1, so something broke in test2 and hasn't been fixed.
>   I tried to make a tarball of my home directory to do a clean install, but
> got an error at the end
> 
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> which I never got before despite using the same procedure.  Is this due to
> files changing while the tarfile is being made, and is there anything
> different now than at the end of test1 that might be causing this?  I didn't
> see any reported bugs for tar itself.
>   So I finally did an upgrade rather than a clean install.  There were only
> a handful of packages that needed upgrading, and it finished in a few
> minutes.
> 
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