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- Mini-Howto for verifying a selfmade CD
-
- 1) verifying the data layer
-
- To verify if all data on the disk can be read,
- use SCSI verify. This can be done with the
- sformat utility.
-
- use: sformat -verify [target] [lun] [scsibus]
-
- If the CD-R device is connected to target 2 on SCSI bus 0
- sformat -verify 2 0
-
- sformat can be found on ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/sformat
-
- NOTE: Not all CD-ROm drives support verifying
- NOTE: All TAO tracks end in 2 unreadable run-out sectors
-
- 2) verifying the filesystem layer
-
- A quick check is to mount the CD and to use star to read
- all files on the filesystem.
-
- mount -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom (modify for your OS)
- cd /cdrom
- star -cPM . >/dev/null
-
- If no errors can be found, all files are readable.
-
- star can be found on ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star
-
-
- You also may want to compare the filesystem on the CD
- with the original data. This can be done with star too.
-
-
- (cd /master_for_cd; star -cPM .)|(cd /cdrom; star -diff -v)
-
- 2a) verifying the iso image before creating the CD
-
- You may check the filesystem image by mounting it with my
- "fbk" on Solaris or the loopback driver on Linux.
-
- On Linux type:
- mount isoimage.raw -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
-
- On SunOS type:
- mount -r -F fbk -o type=hsfs /dev/fbk0:isoimage.raw /mnt
-
- For Solaris 8 and later you may also use the Sun lofi driver (see README.sun-lofi)
-
- The check the filesystem with:
-
- (cd /master_for_cd; star -cPM .)|(cd /mnt; star -diff -v)
-
-
- When doing this you have to know about the bugs in Linux/Solaris
-
- Mkisofs before 1.10 and Linux have a bug with timezones.
- If you are using mkisofs-1.10 and newer on Linux, you need to disable
- comparing times:
-
- (cd /master_for_cd; star -cPM .)|(cd /cdrom; star -diff -v diffopts=!times)
-
- The same is needed if you are using mkisofs pre-1.10 on Solaris
-
- Solaris has a bug with hardlinks. It generates different inode numbers
- for the hardlinks to a file. This makes it impossible for star to
- check hard links. Use
-
- (cd /master_for_cd; star -cPM .)|(cd /cdrom; star -diff -v diffopts=!hardlink)
-
- in this case.
-
- NOTE: Some operating systems have a read ahead bug that causes I/O errors for
- the last file(s) on a CD. This seems at least to be true for all Linux versions
- and for Solaris 7 FCS. For Solaris 7 there is a patch (107465-02) that you should
- install. This I/O error problem does not occur with DAO disks and with TAO disks
- that have been written with cdrecord -pad.
-
- Joerg Schilling
-