>From: Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >(From someone who doesn't know much about CD's)
>I used to checksum all the files (after finding that >checksumming the whole disk doesn't work -- something beyond >my understanding). This stopped abruptly after I upgraded my >Linux kernel to 2.4, when mounting a hfs disk started to crash >the kernel. I had to simply give people disks that I could not >verify as having been written correctly. If your kernel did crash, then you definitely found a kernel bug. >So if I might add something to the "efficiency" argument, I >might add that for me to checksum my disk, I'll need to checksum >all the files twice (once for iso9660, once for hfs), and all >this is provided that checksumming all the files would actually >work (which is not the case right now). IF you write in SAO mode and your drive is not broken (use -raw96r with Lite-ON drives for this reason....), then you may simply checksum the complete content of the session. The CD definitely gives you exactly the same content back that has been in the *.iso file. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily