[CentOS] CentOS5 consistent media check failures 2 - 6.

Tue Apr 24 10:08:23 UTC 2007
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:03 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Sunday 22 April 2007, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > As much as I hate to, I feel I need to post my long story and ask help.
> [snip info about failed mediachecks]
> 
> Please see the thread starting at 
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003347.html
> 
> Short form answer: cdrecord needs to -pad to get good mediachecks 
> consistently.

Right ... it seems on some hardware (and versions of cdrecord) that is
true.

Try this on your images (make a backup) before you burn it:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=150 >> filename.iso

(of course, substitute your ISO filename for filename.iso)

Then burn it and run the media checks.
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