Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Marek Pawinski wrote: I picked this up, i don't know if it pertains to the issue: Bad Md5sums? (maybe not) Just burned a CD from an ISO image and the md5sum doesn't match? The CD may be just fine... what you may be experiencing is padding which alters the md5sum. Before throwing away the CD and

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Marek Pawinski wrote: I picked this up, i don't know if it pertains to the issue: Bad Md5sums? (maybe not) Just burned a CD from an ISO image and the md5sum doesn't match? The CD may be just fine... what you may be experiencing is padding which alters the md5sum. Before throwing away the CD and c

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread Marek Pawinski
John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? It doesn't. The sectors in question are t

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? It doesn't. The sectors in question are the number of sectors on t

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread Miark
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: > ls -l > > Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the > number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? > Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: Why not? The fo

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello 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

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:07 -0500, Tom wrote: Yes, but in newer Mandrake versions the CD drives are seen as dev=ATA:0,0,0 I use 0,0,0 for example only, 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will return the actual numbers. The ATA device (burner) is linked to the numbers. EG, on m

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Miark
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:07 -0500, Tom wrote: > Yes, but in newer Mandrake versions the CD drives are seen > as dev=ATA:0,0,0 I use 0,0,0 for example only, > 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will return the actual numbers. The > ATA device (burner) is linked to the numbers. EG, on my syst

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:23 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: > dev=ATA:1,0,0 is only for the 2.6 kernels > where the devices are set up as ATA devices. > > dev=1,0,0 is for most 2.4 kernels > where the device is scsi-emulated. > > I use much the same cdrecord Cl as you. > > Whilst I'm not agai

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: I always use CLI to burn my CDs too. cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -dao archivo.iso What is new to me is the use of "dev=ATA:1,0,0". I'll try it in next burn. Using Mandrake 10 fully updated. Thanks, Adolfo dev=ATA:1,0,0 is only for the 2.6 kernels where the devices

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 12:09 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 04:56 am, Adolfo Bello 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 cou

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Miark
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. >

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Miark
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: > OK, simple enough... Simple? I'll have to try this after work when I have a half-hour to kill ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 04:56 am, Adolfo Bello 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 of

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: 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 Of course, the 2.6 kernels don't use scsi-emulation, so

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
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

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: What do you do to verify discs? Do you still have the iso file ? Yes. Miark OK, simple enough. First check iso image file md5sum, you probably know how to do this anyway,but, In a terminal, cd enter md5sum check the return against the published md5sum. then you n

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread Miark
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:35:39 +0100, John wrote: > Miark wrote: > > > >One other thing I considered: crappy media. And make no mistake, > >I'm using Ritek--the crappiest, most god-awful media on planet. > >But when I burned to a RW this morning, I had the same problem > >(burning with K3b, with ver

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: One other thing I considered: crappy media. And make no mistake, I'm using Ritek--the crappiest, most god-awful media on planet. But when I burned to a RW this morning, I had the same problem (burning with K3b, with verification checked). If your burner is modern, 8x is not particula

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread Miark
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:26:35 +0200, Thereidos wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:07:32 -0400 > Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with > > K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, > > they are_always_ different, even if the

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread Miark
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:01:42 -0500, Marc wrote: > On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Miark wrote: > > >When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, > > >then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are > > >_always_ different, even if

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread Miark
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:54:15 +0100, John wrote: > >When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, > >then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are > >_always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something > >weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread Marc
On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Miark wrote: > >When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, > >then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are > >_always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something > >weird with 10.0,

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark Not a

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread Thereidos
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:07:32 -0400 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, > then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are > _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something > weird with 10.0, or is this a

[newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread Miark
When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark ___