-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:29 am, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Hmmm, could it be that some weird CD-writers use a different > number of run-out sectors?! Did the size of the ISO file divided > by 2048 match the number of sectors you entered in readcd? This was the problem. I had to subtract 15, rather than 2, to make the math work. Doing so gives me the correct md5 and file size. Enter selection: 0 (0 - 20)/<cr>:11 Capacity: 326431 Blocks = 652862 kBytes = 637 MBytes = 668 prMB Sectorsize: 2048 Bytes Ignore disk size? no Copy from SCSI (0,0,0) disk to file Enter filename [disk.out]: Enter starting sector for copy: 0 (0 - 326430)/<cr>: Enter number of sectors to copy: 326431 (1 - 326431)/<cr>:326416 Enter number of sectors per copy: 128 (1 - 128)/<cr>: end: 326416 addr: 326416 cnt: 168 [root@paradox valhalla]# grep i386-disc1 MD5SUM cb91810ce8173039fed24420407e4c59 valhalla-i386-disc1.iso [root@paradox valhalla]# md5sum disk.out cb91810ce8173039fed24420407e4c59 disk.out > > Any recomendations for a cd burner that properly handles DAO mode? > > I would recommend AOpen http://www.aopen.nl even though their > "JustLink" buffer-underrun prevention technology is not supported > by cdrecord. Consult the specifications appendix in the PDF user > manual on what modes are supported. I'm confident their latest > models do support DAO. Thanks. It appears I'll be looking for a new drive, as I have the latest firmware installed for mine and it doesn't do DAO properly. - -- - -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) iD8DBQE9o8F3n/07WoAb/SsRAt55AKCmvb6Dta5U9zViKXa+iUVWnH0THACfVlIH 6FfKFLfD0qkfMrXMBvyzc/Y= =4l7D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----