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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know, I was sort of stuck for time when the inbuilt cd checker
failed and needed something that worked, the dd command was in the 'How To'
that I found and read up on, it allows the use of 2Kb blocksize for speed,
i've never done a speed compare :-)

Regards,

Phill.

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:55:13 +0100
> Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The check cd for defects has a reported error where it says that one file
> > has failed the test, you can run the md5checksum from the command line to
> > verify the cd
> >
> >
> >    dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum
>
> Is the dd really necessary? I remember doing "md5sum /dev/cdrom" and having
> it
> work just fine. :-)
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Chow Loong Jin
>
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