Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 8/31/05, Tom Gal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/31/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:35 pm
Subject: CD Tests in Fedora Install
The Media test in Fedora Core's Installer, at least since FC3, is
broken
and its results thus unreliable either way. Don't use it. In fact,
the
FC maintainers are going to remove that test in future versions. It
was
supposed to have been removed from FC4, but was missed.
Can you recommend a good test, from linux and/or windows that would
ensure the iso has been burned correctly?
On a whim, I decided to use my rh9 install CD to "test the media" of my
fc3 discs. The test as done by fc3 gives "pass" for discs 1 & 4 but
"fail" to discs 2 & 3. But the results from using the rh9 install CD
gives "pass" to all four fc3 discs. Can I rely on this?
If it doesn't work now, why would it have worked back then?
T
Converted from top post, to preserve the sequence of thought.
Presumably somebody changed the way that the media test works.
So I don't understand "worked back then". The observation is that new
CDs tested with the old test routine pass. The same ew CDs tested
with the new test routine sometimes fail.
And consistently so. Using fc3's media test, if a CD fails, that CD
fails every time with that tester. It is the same if a CD passes under
that tester. And all the CDs that failed under the fc3 tester, pass
using rh9's media test. No matter which tester is used, that tester
always gives me consistent results for any given CD. The two testers
just don't agree with each other. So perhaps rh9's media test gleefully
awards "Pass" to every CD whether accurate or not. Or maybe fc3's media
test is broken, although in a *very* consistent way. But the only thing
from this that *I* know for sure is that the two testers are certainly
different. There certainly has been some change between the two.
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