checking sh1asum of Fedora Core 6 Installation DVD without boot

[Tim]

Paul Howarth:
>>> Your file may have extra bytes appended to the end of it because the 
>>> kernel does not detect the end of the written data

Tim:
>> That's the second fault related to checking install discs that ought to
>> get fixed, rather than worked around.  Hasn't anybody worked out why it
>> doesn't do it correctly?

Paul Howarth:
> It's the same fault, namely the kernel returning too much data on some 
> hardware. If it was an easy fix, I'm sure it would have been done by now.

It and the DMA fault are the same thing?  But anyway, this would beg the
question:  Does it ever manage to read from the drive properly?  (Post
installation.)

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