dvdisaster Version 0.72.4 / 0.72 (pl4) | To the Internet version

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Overview
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· | The big picture
· | Scanning media for errors
· | Putting error correction data on a separate file
· | Putting error correction data on the medium
· | Recovering media images
· | Getting information about images and error correction data
| - | Show information
| - | Results for error correction files
| - | Results for augmented images
| - | Examples
· | Testing image compatibility
· | Dialogs and buttons
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|  | ### Results for error correction files
|  | Comparing an image against its error correction file produces information in two output fields; each related to one of the files:
Output field "Image file summary": |
Medium sectors: | The number of sectors in the ISO image (one sector = 2KB).
Checksum errors: | The error correction file contains CRC32 checksums for each image sector. If this value is greater than zero some sectors were readable but their contents do not match the checksum. The error correction will try to recalculate the contents of these sectors.
Missing sectors: | This is the number of sectors which could not be read from the medium. The error correction will try to recover the contents of these sectors.
Image checksum: | A MD5 checksum is calculated for the complete ISO image. You can reproduce this value using the command line of GNU/Linux: `md5sum medium2.iso`
If all values in this output field are okay the message "Good image." appears. Otherwise the most important error will be explained there.
Output field "Error correction file summary": |
Created by: | Prints the dvdisaster version which was used for creating the error correction data. Alpha/developer versions are highlighted in red.
Method: | The method and redundancy used for creating the error correction file.
Requires: | Processing the error correction data requires at least the shown version of dvdisaster.
Medium sectors: | The expected number of sectors in the image file.
Image checksum: | The expected MD5 sum of the image file.
Fingerprint: | dvdisaster uses the checksum of a special sector to determine whether the error correction file was made for a given image.
Ecc blocks: | The error correction divides the image into small blocks which can be processed independently. This information is mostly useless as long as the number of ecc blocks is correct ;-)
Ecc checksum: | A MD5 checkum is calculated over the error correction file, not taking into account the first 4KB. You can reproduce this value using the command line of GNU/Linux: `tail -c +4097 medium.ecc | md5sum`
If all values in this output field are okay the message "Good error correction file." appears. Otherwise the most important error will be explained there.

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