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Why???
Why would anyone ever want to do this? Checksums are there to protect you. It's a safety mechanism to, in this case, verify the integrity of a disc image before you go making any assumptions & maybe do something destructive. How long does the checksum take -- a few seconds at most? Come on, this isn't a hint, this is an invitation to pain. Don't do this hint -- sooner or later, you'll regret it. ---
Why???
Well, I keep one or two disk images of game CDs on my laptop so I don't need to carry the CDs around with me. When I want to play, I don't want to sit and wait while it checksums.
Why???
You could get seriosly hurt if you leave your house - so instead of giving you the option to leave, I'm going to come over and nail your doors shut.
Just because a bad thing could happen doesn't mean people shouldn't have the choice or option of controlling their own computer... I absolutely NEED this option for my children's computers. See, they play lots of kids games, and EVERY ONE of those games requires the disk in to play. Since that is not feasable for a toddler to manage - I have created disk images of all the disks, and mount them automatically at login. If I can't turn off the verify - it starts failing around disk 6, and can run for an hour before finishing sometimes, with random failures. Once I turn off the verify - they mount perfectly and work fine...
Why? Takes too long.
If the checksum only took a few seconds, I doubt anyone would ever wish to turn it off. However, for large images like CD images, this can take minutes to perform. The only way (previous to learning about this hint) to stop it was to click the "Skip" button. It's precisely the length of time that causes people to want to turn it off. |
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