Should I be able to burn CDs?
Burning works properly [in general.]
I'm trying to burn the FC5t2 ISOs and I've tried with GNOME and cdrecord but they're failing the sha1sum test.
The burning probably worked. Almost certainly, the failure is in the verifying.
Advice and assistance gratefully received,
Find the Linux kernel IDE maintainer, and shoot him. Literally. Then perhaps someone else will fix the kernel bug [on the READ side] that causes this misery. It's been there for over TWO YEARS. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131858 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106685 ide-scsi work[ed], but the maintainer of the ide driver just cannot bear the thought of fixing this bug. Yes, the specification of CD-ROM {media + hardware} allows too much room to create the problem (end-of-recorded-data cannot be detected reliably to a precision of one 2KB sector), but ide-scsi dealt with it, and the current ide driver does not.
Instead of using sha1sum to verify, use dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | cmp - FC5-test1-i386-discN.iso and check the return code from cmp only, ignoring any complaints from dd.