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I just spent several hours trying to get my Linux system to burn a CD that didn’t produce the following output when being read:

hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1397004

First I thought it was a configuration error in xcdroast, then I thought that it had to do with the Linux 2.6.8.1 kernel, so i upgraded to 2.6.11.6. I booted back to windows and burned a fully functional, error-free CD using Nero, of the same file that I had been trying to burn in Linux! Ok, so at this point, I concede that the problem is in my Linux burning software, which I have used in the past to burn stuff.

So what the hell? I tried not using the xcdroast interface to cdrtools, and used mkisofs and cdrecord directly and the errors came back. I made about 4 coasters today, and the program that was burning them never reported any errors were made in the process.

I don’t know what the fsck is wrong. I don’t feel like spending any more time troubleshooting this. Fsck it. I’m doing something else.