On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Mount the CD and copy the contents to the HDD. This will catch about 99% > > of the problems. > > Not recommended, as it transfers the data over your IDE bus twice. Instead > read once and make an md5 (this is twice as fast as computing the md5 > takes next to no CPU time). > Copying it is easy, quick (and dirty) and catches most problem. I would not suggest it for checking a CD or image for production purposes.
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