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How to Verify Burned CD


joeclark
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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

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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.

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