<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Earl Violet</b> <<a href="mailto:ejviolet@yahoo.com">ejviolet@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>--- SteVe Cook <<a href="mailto:yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com">yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Earl Violet wrote:<br>> > No experience with DVDs but I found CDs seem to work better on my
<br>> > machine if burned at a lower speed.<br>> ><br>> One problem I had was that some iso images would work OK and others<br>> not,<br>> notably Ubuntu ones, I was using some older 650MB CDs and the
<br>> images<br>> that failed were all 680-700+MB. They all passed mdsum tests and<br>> similar, but when installing from them random read errors appeared.<br>Come to think of it, when I ran the check on Ubuntu and Kubuntu
6.06<br>It showed something bad on each of them (I don't remember the exact<br>error) but they both ran as live CDs and installed OK. They were from<br>Ubuntu and not downloads. The check showed ok for Xubuntu which I<br>
downloaded and burned. No explanation, just fact.<br>Earl<br><br>URL <a href="http://deserthowler.cjb.net">http://deserthowler.cjb.net</a><br>Instant messenger: earlcoyote<br>ICQ:64033496<br><br>*******************</blockquote>
<div><br>Nothing surprising there. Most machines (and media) when run at maximum are more likely to fail. I have a new multiformat nec dvd burner that will burn my 16x TY media at 16 x. I usually use 8 or 12 x so as to leave a margin of safty.
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