Read After Write

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Thu Aug 12 15:01:44 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 17:56, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> When a DVD or CD is burned using cdrecord, is the media checked via read 
> after write?
> 
> Is the application (cdrecord) responsible for read after write; is the 
> operating system/driver responsible for checking that what was supposed 
> to get to the media in fact actually made it; is anything responsible 
> for this?
> 
> If I burn a CD or DVD, should I run a comparison after the fact or is 
> that a waste of time?
> 
> -- 
> Bill Gradwohl
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I skimmed and greped man cdrecord (man cdrecord | grep verify) and found
nothing.

You could though do a compare (cmp)
mounting the ISO on a loop and do a directory cmp.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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