I don't know, I was sort of stuck for time when the inbuilt cd checker failed and needed something that worked, the dd command was in the 'How To' that I found and read up on, it allows the use of 2Kb blocksize for speed, i've never done a speed compare :-)
Regards, Phill. On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:55:13 +0100 > Phillip Whiteside <phi...@phillw.net> wrote: > > > The check cd for defects has a reported error where it says that one file > > has failed the test, you can run the md5checksum from the command line to > > verify the cd > > > > > > dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum > > Is the dd really necessary? I remember doing "md5sum /dev/cdrom" and having > it > work just fine. :-) > > -- > Kind regards, > Chow Loong Jin > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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