[KLUG Members] Re: CD Burning

[Peter Buxton]

On my system:

grimace:10:30 PM:~# cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -driveropts=help -checkdrive
Cdrecord 1.11a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'LITE-ON '
Identifikation : 'LTR-40125S      '
Revision       : 'ZS0G'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Driver options:
burnfree        Prepare writer to use BURN-Free technology
noburnfree      Disable using BURN-Free technology
forcespeed      Tell the drive to force speed even for low quality media
grimace:10:35 PM:~#

So, 'burnproof' may indeed be an option somewhere... but not here. RGB's
(?) comment about RW media and older drives is probably Thompson's
trouble.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:10:02PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> That's because "raw CD" format != ISO9660 Yellow Book (aka .iso
> images).  Fortunately, Linux _does_ automatically converts from raw CD
> to ISO format when you dd.  So the correct way to get an MD5 to
> compare to an ISO image is then: 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom | md5sum -

Cool! I had wondered....

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