On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> before carrying my RHL cd to a friends place for installation I wan t to
> check whether its OK. Basically some sort of a surface scan. Anyway of
> doing it.
> I did the following
> cat /dev/cdrom |wc -c
> and compared the results after running a couple of times. I couldnt
> think of otherways.
>
> sreangsu
Normally I do a 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null' & see whether any read
errors are reported. It does a complete read of the device.
Sreeji
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