Michael Schwendt wrote: > But try: cdrecord -v -pad dev=0,0,0 shrike-i386-disc1.iso > And then see whether you are able to read back the ISO image with > dd if=dev/cdrom of=image.iso bs=2048 count=326656 > or "readcd" and function "11" or check it directly with: > dd if=dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=326656 | md5sum Thanks Micheal, this appeared to work, but I think it results in the wrong checksum number: Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 638 of 638 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 4.1x. Track 01: writing 30 KB of pad data. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 668991488/669022208 (326671 sectors). Writing time: 1100.481s Average write speed 4.0x. Min drive buffer fill was 93% Fixating... Fixating time: 66.361s cdrecord: fifo had 10538 puts and 10538 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 8073 times full, min fill was 96%. [root@xxx iso]# dd if=dev/cdrom of=image.iso bs=2048 count=326656 dd: opening `dev/cdrom': No such file or directory [root@xxx iso]# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso bs=2048 count=326656 1+0 records in 1+0 records out [root@xxx iso]# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=326656 | md5sum 1+0 records in 1+0 records out c99a74c555371a433d121f551d6c6398 -