md5sum
No matter what disk I put into my CD/DVD writer I get the same results with md5sum.
With SimplyMEPIS 6.0-1 DVD I get:
don@1[iso]$ md5sum /dev/cdrom
c99a74c555371a433d121f551d6c6398 /dev/cdrom
With SimplyMEPIS 6.0 CD I get:
don@1[iso]$ md5sum /dev/cdrom
c99a74c555371a433d121f551d6c6398 /dev/cdrom
don@1[iso]$
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks




Do you have 2 CD bays? Do
Do you have 2 CD bays? Do you actually replace the CD, or you use the other bay? Maybe you need to run md5sum /dev/dvd instead of /dev/cdrom
Actually both /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd are symlinks and they might confuse you, use the direct links to devices /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc
I get different results, for example:
Kubuntu:
md5sum /dev/cdrom
9362d34e79ef7d1c1a6d377c7158b95c /dev/cdrom
Mepis 6.0:
md5sum /dev/cdrom
f53d134974db0d24aa97925e3707ab4c /dev/cdrom
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I have only one CD/DVD bay
I have only one CD/DVD bay and it is /dev/hdc. Hhere is what I get now.
MEPIS in the CD/DVD
don@1[~]$ md5sum /dev/hdc
c99a74c555371a433d121f551d6c6398 /dev/hdc
Knoppix in the CD/DVD
don@1[~]$ md5sum /dev/dvd
c99a74c555371a433d121f551d6c6398 /dev/dvd
Ubuntu in the CD/DVD
don@1[~]$ md5sum /dev/dvd
c99a74c555371a433d121f551d6c6398 /dev/dvd
Gentoo in the CD/DVD
don@1[~]$ md5sum /dev/dvd
c99a74c555371a433d121f551d6c6398 /dev/dvd
don@1[~]$
It doesn't matter what CD/DVD I put in the CD/DVD drive.
Even if you don't put a CD
Even if you don't put a CD in?
I have no clue what's going on, in my case it works as it should...
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I finally solved it. I ran
I finally solved it. I ran md5sum /dev/dvd as root one time and it worked properly. From then on it has worked flawlessly when I was logged in as don or when my wife was logged in as pat.