Can't get md5sum to work

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 06:52:00PM +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> Could anyone please help me to get md5sum work for me. I have downloaded
> and burned Hoary array6 and would like to check if it's OK. When I do 
> 
> md5sum /dev/hdc
> 
> I get 
> 
> /dev/hdc: failed in buffer_read(fd): mdfile: Input/output error. 

There's nothing wrong with md5sum. If you get this, the burn went wrong.

One of my CD writers that used to work fine now burns badly all the
time, which is annoying. I suspect it just needs cleaning, but haven't
got around to it yet.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]