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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.

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