Peter Jones <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 22:35 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> > I burned a copy of CD 5 with 800 blank sectors at the end and it worked
> > perfectly. I also noticed that CD 2 has the problem (although I hadn't
> > noticed it before), CDs 3 and 4 don't have a problem (I still have to
> > repeat
> > tests on CD 1).
> >
> > I guess that I can work around this problem by specifying a padsize of
> > something between 81 and 800 sectors (if some more friends want copies of
> > FC5
> > then I'll find out soon).
>
> Ok, so... what CD drive do you have, what type of bus is it on, and what
> controller is in use?
I can't answer that question, but I can tell you that the -pad 800 solved
this same problem for the exceedingly generic ATAPI CD-ROM drive on my Opteron
box. This workaround is probably generally applicable, and I'm going to
put it in my Fedora Core customization FAQ.
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