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DVD burning
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Matt Giwer
2009-01-25 01:12:36 UTC
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I have burned literally hundreds of DVDs and CDs. I have worn out at one
burner. Presently using Fedora 10 and have done burning on previous Fedora and
Redhat releases.

Using an old, reliable linux Nero burning software errors on verification
started appearing. I tried different blanks (not more from the same spindle)
and still errors. I got a new burner and still mostly errors but a few times
none. Maybe Nero got corrupted so I switch to k3b. Still errors. Use different
blanks with k3b and still errors. In a bid to try all combinations of
everything I try a different iso and still errors.

So I do an md5sum on the mounted iso and on a mounted burned DVD which had
reported numerous errors over seven files. The md5sums are the same. No
errors. The DVD copies back to HD flawlessly.

I trust an md5sum more than any burning app reporting errors. K3b does an
sha1sum as verification which is as good as. I have not viewed the files on
the burned DVD to see if it is good enough yet as it will take over 12 hours.

Any ideas what might be happening?
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Sat Jan 24 19:54:23 EST 2009
Matt Giwer
2009-01-26 10:53:20 UTC
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Post by Matt Giwer
I have burned literally hundreds of DVDs and CDs. I have worn out at
one burner. Presently using Fedora 10 and have done burning on previous
Fedora and Redhat releases.
Using an old, reliable linux Nero burning software errors on
verification started appearing. I tried different blanks (not more from
the same spindle) and still errors. I got a new burner and still mostly
errors but a few times none. Maybe Nero got corrupted so I switch to
k3b. Still errors. Use different blanks with k3b and still errors. In a
bid to try all combinations of everything I try a different iso and
still errors.
So I do an md5sum on the mounted iso and on a mounted burned DVD
which had reported numerous errors over seven files. The md5sums are the
same. No errors. The DVD copies back to HD flawlessly.
I trust an md5sum more than any burning app reporting errors. K3b
does an sha1sum as verification which is as good as. I have not viewed
the files on the burned DVD to see if it is good enough yet as it will
take over 12 hours.
Any ideas what might be happening?
Excuse. k3b uses md5sum not sha1sum so I am applying the same test as the
application but getting a different result. I know that makes it stranger.
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Israel's objective in the Hanuka War against Gaza is to reignite
the lawful resistance movement against the occupation.
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Mon Jan 26 05:51:45 EST 2009
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