On 12/06/2011 01:43 PM, JR van Rensburg wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 13:23 -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 12:40 -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, I am unable to cut a DVD from an ISO.
>>>> Specifically, I am trying to cut DVDs of the SL61 DVD.
>>>>
>>>> I get bad md5sums when using from both growisofs and k3b.
>
> You specifically state here that there is a problem with the checksum.
> If you are sure the chesksum is OK then the image is not corrupt.

The image(s) are good.  And, it does not matter if my iso is good
or not, after I burn, both the iso and the disk should match.  If
one is bad, both will be the "same" bad.

>
>
>> k3b won't check the md5sum for me.  k3b crashes when checking with an
>> error about a bad device.  I used the md5sum command from the command
>> line to test the new disks.
>
> OK, so the iso is sound.
>
> k3b should be able to check the disc integrity (haven't used it for a
> while, but it uses either md5 or checksum.
>
> You say that the error given by k3b is a device error?
> if you are using rewritable discs, just try writing any data to the disc
> and see if it works.
> If you are still getting errors, you do have a device error.
> Check the dmesg data to see/get a clue what the problem is. Try:
> dmesg>tail

Not the error in dmesg.  I am using DVD+R, 16x