from searching in the forum, i understand damage on a cd can affect things like acoustID for individual tracks, but could this also affect disc ID? i would think no since that’s based on track numbers and lengths but figured i should ask before i get to the few cds i have that are too damaged to get clean rips from even with software that’s designed to do multiple tries (and after getting the cds resurfaced as best as i could 
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I’m no expert in the matter but I believe DiscID is generated using the Table of Contents (TOC) of the CD. It doesn’t matter if tracks are scratched as long as the TOC reflects the track length and tracks order…
If the TOC section is damaged I guess it would affect it.
You can get an AccurateRip ripper to compare your results.
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the programs i’ve been using for ripping do check against accuraterip, but none of the ones listed on accuraterip’s website are availabel for linux 
i still have my previous windows computer for occasional tasks i can’t do on linux but it’s incredibly slow and can’t really handle installing anymore software than is already on it 
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In fact, I don’t know of any tool that presents the rip results the way AccurateRip does. If I have doubts about the accuracy (in case of retries) I use cdparanoia -B which also writes a log with the -l option. However, this log is largely the console output.
I’ve been using whipper on Linux which does verify against AccurateRip, has MusicBrainz integration for metadata and disc ID matching & submission and also works well with hidden tracks. Unless you absolutely need e.g. an EAC log whipper is a very capable alternative to the usual Windows software. I’ve also heard about people successfully using EAC with Wine, though.
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oh i’ll look into that one, thank you!