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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
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To: Dave Littell <dlittell@onramp.net>
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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