On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 08:47, Michael Schwendt wrote: > What is written above is misinformation. At least partly. So to sum up your correction to my "partial misinformation"... As if I were going about, purposely telling people wrong things... > If you don't refer to rare times when "cat /dev/cdrom > image.iso" > ends too early, you probably refer to run-out sectors at the end of > a disc. I specifically said that I didn't know where the problem lies, only that it didn't work. <Lots of very useful and interesting info snipped.> Indeed, I was getting I/O errors at the end of my efforts to `md5sum /dev/cdrom'. According to your instructions, unless you've specifically taken care to write the disk in DAO mode (and I didn't), you are going to run into problems. (Or very likely, even in the case of specifying "-pad".) The problem is that the original poster specifically said that the disks he cared about were burnt in Windows, and who knows how that was done with any number of different burning software packages. So the problem remains. For all your explanation, using `md5sum /dev/cdrom' STILL doesn't work in the general case. If you can't tell, I really take offense at your characterization of my post. Especially since it doesn't change anything in regards to the original subject at hand. dk
