Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: hmm. again, here's what i did: i burned the same disk-at-once session four times, using the following command: cdrdao write /dev/<device> mytoc.toc twice i wrote to /dev/cdrw, and twice to /dev/dvdrw. all four disks were read back in using cdparanoia, to four different directories: cdrw1, cdrw2, dvdr1, dvdr2. when i cmp the files in cdrw[12], no diff. when i cmp the files in dvdr[12], no diff. when i cmp cdrwN to dvdrN, pooof! several thousand bytes differ. wtf????? please tell me it's really obvious and i'm doing something unspeakably stupid. regards, jörn -- jörn nettingsmeier home://germany/45128 essen/lortzingstr. 11/ http://spunk.dnsalias.org phone://+49/201/491621 Kurt is up in Heaven now.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:11:42 +0200 Jörn Nettingsmeier &lt;nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de&gt; wrote: Hi, I know that there are some differenes with drives, and stuff like r/w offsets and so on, but that sounds like a huge difference to me. I don't know much about that stuff, but I know where to find knowledgeable people. I'd give the hydrogenaudio.org forums a shot. If the guys there can't answer your questions, I don't know who can. Note that the forums focus is not on free software but on audio codecs, cd ripping and foobar2k. I hope that they can help you anyway. Oh, and if you find something interesting, please consider sharing it with us. Best Regards, Philipp