joeclark Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 Hi there. I frequently use CDSpeed on Windows to verify that burned discs are sector-by-sector readable. I would like to find something with the same functionality on Linux, but so far I haven't come up with anything. My requirements are: * I don't have the original data available on Linux (it was burned on Windows) * I don't have an ISO image or an md5 sum (I burned it direct-to-CD) Anyone know of an easy way to accomplish this with the given requirements? For "flame bait", remember this is extremely easy to do on Windows (with CDSpeed). :-) - Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 I had never though of this sort of checking. But I think it shouldn't be too hard. If I were to check a CD, here's what I would do as root ("#" is root's shell prompt): # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null As far as I know, default dd behaviour is to stop on read-error (unless given the noerror option). So if all goes well, the data should be 100% readable. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 I beleive theirs a tutorial on this in the faqs. I never got that raw script they had to work though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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