On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 07:50:51AM -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:38:15 -0700 Seth Zirin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I always dd the CD back to a /tmp file before running md5sum against it. > > Not necessary: > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BadISOMd5sumNotAlways
Certainly not necessary for the md5sum to work, but it does allow reading the cdrom marginally faster so it is freed up sooner for the next burn/read operation. Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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