Quote Originally Posted by ddp
I have downloaded thousands of files with DAP and I have never had corrupt files without a warning.
If you want advice from people who have gone over this many times before, fine. If you want to argue, I have better things to do. I've downloaded thousands of files also. I may have had some corrupt downloads from newsgroups, but can't be sure that the problem wasn't in the posting. Other than that I have never had a bad download other than when downloading the Knoppix ISO from a mirror, and about 1/2 of those went bad. I would love to place a bet right now that you have a bad download. BitTorrent is the prefered way to download the ISO (and, as a bonus, the related files). I have looked into this corruption and know exactly what is going wrong. (I'll bet that when this is done, if you get a good ISO, you find that the size of the ISO you have now is not exactly what it should be.) The fix is to use BitTorrent and not to use the mirrors. If you do have a corrupt ISO, I give you about a 50% chance of getting a good download the next time that you try, unless you are willing to learn to use BitTorrent .

Quote Originally Posted by ddp
What is a md5 test, please?
See answer #1.

Quote Originally Posted by ddp
I have been writing all my dvds at 8x with no problems. From the error messages that I get I tend to believe that the dvd is corrupt at some point. Unfortunately, I wont be able to write a new one till Monday.
Actually, not being able to write another until Monday is good, since if you make more burns before doing the md5 test you would just be cranking out more coasters, although you would be doing it at a rate twice as fast as I would. If you are willing to listen to someone who also used to burn at high speed before he found that he could no longer read some things that had been burnt fine and were verified at time of burn, and has seen this problem over and over again here, see these links:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17788

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...?p=78582#78582

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17064


Quote Originally Posted by ddp
Is there anyway to verify that the dvd that I currently have is with no errors? I tried the testdvd option at the F2/F3 screens but I get the same error messages before the test even starts...
Do the MD5 test against the ISO. If the ISO is bad I can assure you that the DVD is bad, no matter at what speed it was burned at. The testdvd option is good (it also does md5 tests), but it can't check everything and it can't run when you have a corrupted download.