CD Burner Testing

to test a burner

• grab a CD R/RW drive
• jumper it so that the drive is a master
• plug the CD R/RW into the machine. Remember both the power and the ribbon cable.
• boot the computer (the computer will automatically login you into a GUI)
• Test the Drive With K3B.
  • first simulate
  • Second wright some files to the disk, and make sure the program verifies
• Make a Sticker for the drive. the sticker should say its a "CD R/RW" its speed "**X" and "OK"

always have fun in anything you do

• you should also check the md5sums

• a simple way is to:

you@place:~ $ diff <(cat slackware.MD5) <(md5sum /dev/burner)

• , or

you@place:~ $ md5sum -C iso.md5

the last one is only good if the file iso.md5 has information like this:

92cab6a4817dd29786b713b944b3e05c /iso/location.iso
      
      /|\
        \_____( this is the md5 hash, or magical number. It is not random )

• • a note on the md5 hash:

• to generate it type:

md5sum /some/file/any/file/data/file/text/file > file.md5