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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!mr.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: neosoft.users.freebsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free BSD trouble Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:30:10 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32F24842.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> References: <32EAF919.17A0@neosoft.com> <5cflae$gal@bonkers.taronga.com> <5cpfsk$fqk@uuneo.neosoft.com> <32F15A22.6221@onramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Dave Littell <dlittell@onramp.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34877 Dave Littell wrote: > - Somebody somewhere blew it in mastering the 2.1.6.1 CD. The first > CD-ROM drive we tried couldn't even read it. This same drive worked As the guy who mastered that CD, I do beg your pardon but I don't think that I've "blown" anything. I checksum verified every file on that CD before it went to master, and only one known-bug slipped through this process which was the AGX server, truncated in my original master distribution and hence not caught by this check. Since that server is for a rarely used board and also widely available via FTP, it was not deemed a show-stopper. You may have a physically bad CD, that is possible with replication runs of many thousand CDs (and WC will be happy to send you another one if you suspect this to be the case). You may have a drive which just plain Doesn't Like that particular CD I've seen this happen with dozens of CDs from many mfrs and the wide mix of CDROM drives around here. You may even have a BAD CADDY, something which I've seen choke my own Plexstor drive. In any case, none of these potential failures have anything at all to do with the mastering process and I'd appreciate it if you learned a little more about the subject before casting wild and poorly-justified accusations around. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project