Verifying CD's after burn

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 19:48, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>I burn a lot of CD's for people - I use to be able to verify the
> burn after burning by checking the md5sum of /dev/hdc (my burner)
> against the md5sum of the iso file.
>
>That hasn't worked in awhile - I also have tried piping the output
> of dd to md5sum, but it has the same issue - I/O error happens
> somewhere along the way.
>
>I'm not positive but I think the failure started with kernel 2.6 -
> I'm not sure though if it worked in FC1 - I am sure it worked in
> RH8.
>
>At any rate - is there a solution to this?
>I'm thinking about building a dedicated burn box - if need be, I'll
> put RH8 on it but if there is a solution with newer 2.6 kernel
> distros that works for verifying that a burn went correctly, I'd
> really prefer to run something modern on the burn box.
>
>Thanks for suggestions.
>
>Would using ide-scsi instead of the kernel ide-cdrom driver work?

I dunno about ide-scsi, haven't used it in a while.  But, I've had no 
problems with k3b-0.11.14, part of kde3.3 verifying a burn, just hit 
the checkbox before the burn.

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