md5sum of a burned cd

[Matt Price]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:14:10PM +0800, toylet wrote:
> check the md5sum against the published one.
I'm having trouble with md5sums of cd's I burn -- they seme to be
burning pretty well but the sum is not identical to that of the iso.
I wonder whether I odn't understand md5sum properly?  I do: 

cdrecord --dev=ATA:1,1,0 --speed=12 -tao /path/to/breezy.iso
md5sum /dev/hdd /path/to/breezy.iso

md5sum command only works at all when I'm root;
never gives the same 2 hashes for both.

what's up? cd's seem to work fine...

Matt


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