[Linux-Anyway] Re: md2sum and the variance in sector counts.
- From: John Richard Smith <BAGSOFCHOICE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:46:47 +0000
Godwin Stewart wrote:
>Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:13:26 +0000 scripsit John Richard Smith:
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>>>I think you'll find it's adding the lead-out.
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>>You mean the unwritten remaining space at the end, because cdrecord
>>doesn't packet write.
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>The lead-out isn't something specific to packet-mode output AFAIK...
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Indeed I didn't mean to imply it did, quite the reverse. In packet
write
the writer is able to write and fixate only that data that is
available
to be written,The rest of the unwritten sectors is left blank for
future
writes. AFAIK, all other writer modes write the data and fixate the
entire disc. So I guess maybe when the cdrecord writes an iso
installation disc it does so but includes any unwritten element but
fixated in the lead out . Just a thought, that is all, don't know for
sure. Just trying to rationalise the difference.
The only other thought that occured to me was maybe that cdrecord is
calculating the number of sectors of data on the installation disc
itself, rather than the number of sectors of the iso image file it
originated from. Does that make sense ?
John
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