I just burned some CDs from their ISO images. I have the m5dsums of the images, and now I'd like to compare a hash of the completed CD against the original image... basically I want to make sure the CD was burned ok.
I'm concerned because the hard drive I downloaded the ISOs to was bad, and I had a hard time getting one of the images off of the disk (kept getting read failures). I burned 3 of the 4 anyway, and I haven't burned this last one yet. I'd like to verify that the others are all right before I waste another cd, just in case the others are trash. I tried md5sum /dev/hdd (which is my cdrom drive) but I would get an i/o error after a few mins of chugging. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if the disc is bad, or if there is a better way for me to check these discs. Thanks.
