> BTW, is there a way to check a cd has been written correctly other than
> creating an iso image from the cd and md5summing it again (fairly time
> consuming and disk-space intensive!)

Yes, dead simple. You need either the original CD in the drive or an iso
image of it. You can then check as many subsequent CDs as you like. There
is no easier way, as the written CDs need to be read completely once to
check for read errors.

An archive of iso md5 sums comes in handy.

http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/script/md5
http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/script/functions_vk.bash

For backups, I also use md5 to create a file listing and an md5 sum
of each individual file on the CD, and store those in the top-level
directory before mastering.

Volker

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