On 8/31/05, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So...Given the length of time it takes to run the tests on all four CD's
> anyway, you won't lose much time if you just do the install and it ends
> up barfing due to bad media. Think of the install as its own media test.
> And as has been pointed out, not even the first: your CD burning
> software should have caught problems already if the ISO's source was
> known to be good.
Just to add an observation: the CD burning software will catch
problems if it is asked to. K3b has this capability available from
its GUI. As far as I can tell, Xcdroast does not.
I don't know of any command-line interface that checks the recorded
data, except for a shell script that I wrote. It calls the shell
script that I also wrote which appeared upthread, both as an
attachment and as just plain text.
Also the code in K3b to verify DVDs is broken. I think many of these
verification problems are related to the zero-fill run-out that is
added in varying amounts to the end of the burn. This changes the
MD5 sum but does not change the actual useful recorded data.
carl
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