Re: [DISCUSS] MDK9.1 CD1 - no good burn yet

[Benjamin Story <bstory@bullets.net>]

Mike,

Non of my CD's are checking out using your script.  Hmm.  Maybe this
is a cruel trick to force me to buy the Mandrake power pack this
time. ;-)


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:01:39AM +0000, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > I'm not sure, how do you md5sum your burned cd's?  Every method I've
> > tried has come out with the wrong checksum and I'm using cdrecord from
> > the command line on a HP Cd-Writer 9600 SCSI drive.
> 
> Ahh. The secret is in using a 2K block size.
> I run the below script passing in the ISO I want to check against.
> I manually check the file against the published checksums.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> CDROM_DEV=/dev/cdrom
> file=$1
> file=${file:?}
> # Calculate the size in 2K blocks
> block_count=`wc -c <$file`
> block_count=`expr $block_count / 2048`
> # Calculate the md5sum
> dd if=$CDROM_DEV bs=2048 count=$block_count | md5sum
> 
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