Troubles with MD5SUM

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:27:50PM -0400, Jim Ruxton wrote:
> I'm trying to verify rh9 .isos on cds I've burned but I keep getting I/O 
> errors or it just doesn't finish. I've downloaded them from RH's ftp 
> server and checking them on my harddrive they are fine. Any ideas why I 
> would have trouble with md5sum on CDs?  
> I'm doing :
> md5sum /dev/cdrom

You can't do that.  You need to use readcd or something similar with the
right parameters to get a cd image dump due to issues with read
capacity, read ahead buffers and other annoyances that I keep reading
about on the cdwrite mailing list.

Lennart Sorensen
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