[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen) writes:

>   In any case, the dd includes the padding after the data, and reads
> until it gets an error. Testing that is not valid, since it's not part
> of the data, just trailing non-data noise. If you use dd, you should use
> count= and bs= to limit the CD read to the length of the image, and I
> wouldn't bet that even that is meaningful.

I understand that writing the CD in DAO mode will make this work as
well. Personally, I think that 

  cdrecord -dao xx.iso
  dd if=/dev/cdwriter | cmp - xx.iso

is the easiest and most reliable way to burn and verify an image.

-- Johan


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