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

[csj@gmx.co.uk]

At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:22:37 -0400,
Rob Bogus wrote:
> 
> 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=.

The problem is that with one drive I could only burn -tao.  CDR's
burned with -dao (on my other drive) are read successfully with
readcd.