dvdisaster Version 0.66  To the Internet version
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Overview
Examples and screen shots
·Scanning media for errors
·Creating error correction data
·Reading defective media
·Recovering media images
·Getting information about images and error correction data
·Configuration
·Command syntax
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Questions and Answers
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Getting information about images and error correction data

This function provides information about image and error correction files which are already present on your hard disc:

1. Select the image file.

image file selection

The filechooser button symbol opens the file chooser.

2. Select the respective error correction file.

eccfile selection

The filechooser button symbol opens the file chooser

3. Click the "Compare" button. compare button
4. Watch the comparison progress. screen shot


Getting the information from the command line

You will need the following parameters (defaults are given in parenthesis):
-t/ --test Compare
-i / --image Image file (medium.iso)
-e / --ecc Error correction file (medium.ecc)

user@linux> dvdisaster -t -i image.iso -e corrdata.ecc
dvdisaster-0.66 Copyright 2004-2006 Carsten Gnörlich.
[... remainder of the GPL announcement ...]

/dvd/image.iso: present, contains 2224288 medium sectors.
- good image : all sectors present
- image md5sum : 55cdd507e8d96af0da0667ce4365c7ae

/dvd/corrdata.ecc: created by dvdisaster-0.62
- method : RS01, 32 roots, 14.3% redundancy.
- requires : dvdisaster-0.55 (good)
- medium sectors : 2224288 (good)
- image md5sum : 55cdd507e8d96af0da0667ce4365c7ae (good)
- fingerprint match: good
- ecc blocks : 20428800 (good)
- ecc md5sum : 4bdf5ed398e7662ac93c9d08e1ba9ff2 (good)

Copyright 2004-2006 Carsten Gnörlich.
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