On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:56:29 -0400, Adolfo wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: > > > > in terminal, > > dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - > > (note the " - " on the end, don't leave it off. > > > > change the /dev/scd0 to whatever device setting your > > drive is on your system. > > and where n is the number of sectors calculated above. > > > > All 3 md5sums should agree, > > ie, the published, your iso file, and the CD. > > If they don't agree you have either a duff write, > > or duff iso file. > > `md5sum /dev/scd0` works fine here, no matter if the CD is mounted or > not.
This is exactly what used to work for me. The only difference I see is that with kernel 2.6 I'm no longer using scsi emulation. so I'm checking /dev/hdc instead of /dev/scd0. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Miark
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