Re: readcd always fails on cdrtools-prepared CDR's

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

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csj@gmx.co.uk wrote:
> As the title says, readcd always fails when I try to copy a CDR
> prepared by cdrecord and mkisofs.  I use both the simple command
> "readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdrom" and the added option "-clone" (sample
> output appended below).  The files in the CDR, however, are free
> from any data error, when I check them against the original files
> using "diff" or "md5sum".

The trick is to read only what you wrote. If you use isoinfo -d you can see
the size of the ISO filesystem. Then use "sectors=0-size" to read
only that much back. You also want to burn -tao, that is reported to help
default behaviour without the need for sectors=.
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