Checking CD with BitTorrent

(I think that I already know the answer to this, but it doesn't hurt to
ask.)

The Mandriva Wiki explains that a damaged CD ISO can be fixed by running
BitTorrent on it (if available, of course.)

I have a scratched CD. I can't get an ISO from it with the rawread script
from Coasterless CDs, and large chunks of files won't copy from it. I have
tried running BitTorrent on what I could salvage, using Transmission,
but it doesn't work. I assume that as well, there must be info about where
they go.

As I was typing, I recalled that BitTorrent can work two ways. Either it
creates a full-sized blank file first, as in my case, or it creates a file
only as large as the data retrieved. Am I likely to have more luck doing
it the second way?

Doug.
--
Husbands are like the fire on the hearth - likely to go out if left
unattended.
- W.G.P.

Doug Laidlaw wrote:[color=blue]
> (I think that I already know the answer to this, but it doesn't hurt to
> ask.)
>
> The Mandriva Wiki explains that a damaged CD ISO can be fixed by running
> BitTorrent on it (if available, of course.)
>
> I have a scratched CD. I can't get an ISO from it with the rawread script
> from Coasterless CDs, and large chunks of files won't copy from it. I have
> tried running BitTorrent on what I could salvage, using Transmission,
> but it doesn't work. I assume that as well, there must be info about where
> they go.
>
> As I was typing, I recalled that BitTorrent can work two ways. Either it
> creates a full-sized blank file first, as in my case, or it creates a file
> only as large as the data retrieved. Am I likely to have more luck doing
> it the second way?
>
> Doug.[/color]

I don't believe so.

I am fairly certain that is unlikely that the iso you have created will
be similar enough to the iso in the torrent download to permit
interchangeability between the two.