-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 07:50 am, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:56:41 -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > Just as an additional data point, my cd burner (Acer 12x8x32 IDE) > > doesn't appear to handle DAO mode properly (Or I am doing it > > improperly, which is always a possibility). I am unable to get the > > md5sum from any cd I've burned. Because of this, any disk I burn > > fails the media check, however I've had no problem installing from > > these disks. I just verify the md5sum on the ISO's, and trust > > cdrecord to do the "Right Thing", since short of buying a new burner, > > I don't have another option. > > You do! "readcd" from the cdrecord package. Start it and enter: > > 11 <RETURN> > n <RETURN> > disk.out <RETURN> > <RETURN> > <reduce total number of sectors by two> <RETURN> > <RETURN> > > This will avoid the I/O errors upon reading the ISO image. No errors reported, but the md5sum and file size didn't match. Thanks for the tip though, I wasn't aware of the readcd command. Any recomendations for a cd burner that properly handles DAO mode? - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9o6ngn/07WoAb/SsRAjC/AJ0dLHm9INuZTNwngxazONj7sGslPQCgq9nd WyK+GgbEQFZtRMIWBKF9Bow= =SQqw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
