Greetings; Since I finally got subscribed for real, I've added the lists address in the to: line.
Warning, newbie at dvd writing thinking out loud here. I've been playing with cli stuff here, and failed in my quest to use the data from the dvd+rwmediainfo utility. It returns a value for used blocks that is about 27k too long in round figures. Using that, I read it with dd if=/dev/cdrom bds=2048 count=595536|md5sum which gave the wrong answer, so I tried it with 595535 and also got the wrong answer. Then I fired up kcalc and calculated the number of 2048 byte blocks in the iso image, and came up with 595523. Substituting that count in the above command line now gives the correct md5sum for the disk as written. Now, since the iso image must be available for this idea to work, and as the info utility doesn't appear to report an accurate location for the leadout (which I would ASSUME starts immediately at the end of the file): READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: 92h, DVD+RW book [revision 2] Legacy lead-out at: 595536*2KB=1219657728 Which is longer than the iso: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1219631104 Nov 18 05:03 CAELinuxBeta1.iso by 26624 bytes, or 13 2048 byte blocks, is there a std for this 'padding' that we could subtract, or are we doomed to use the iso's actual size to determine the amount of data to feed to md5sum to make it work in this scenario? How about subtracting a (MOD(64k)/size)/2048 on the mediainfo returned size? I'm open for ideas and insights. This is a problem that the broken dvd filesystem gives us, and it needs to be fixed in a joe six-pack can use it manner. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
