On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:56:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> One of the things I still haven't figured out but am rather curious about
> is that if I download a Red Hat CD image, use "cdrecord" to burn it, and
> then boot and run a "mediacheck", it will pass just fine. But if I do
>
> diff -q /dev/cdrom /path/to/cdimage.iso
>
> then I get a mismatch (/dev/cdrom ends prematurely). I don't get how it can
> pass Red Hat's media check but not diff properly.
>
> Here there be dragons.
Here there be explanations... ;-}
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-9
I had this problem also, when using the "cdrecord" default
track-at-once mode; by adding "-dao" to the argument list, one should
be able to make CDs the same size as the ISO image file.
--Jay++
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