Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
The main problem with CD/DVD vendors of Linux distributions is the reliablity of the burning. Becuase of my relative isolation I have been using such CD/DVD sets for years and around half of the supplied sets __will__ have writing faults, particularly anyone using those awfull no-name media. ie most.
ah, okay. if they suck that badly, that's a good reason not to use those particular vendors.
Do they not read back the media and verify hashes before considering the product ready for sale? If there's a high failure rate, customer dissatisfaction is likely to be an issue, especially in the highly connected Linux market where reputations count so much. As an aside, are flash devices any more reliable? I also remember the days of floppy disks when you could turn on verification so that every write was followed by a read of the same sectors, a performance cost but usually worth it in circumstances demanding higher levels of assurance.