Re: Problem reading Windows CDR
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:13:22PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:53:38PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > I have a rather large collection of MP3s that I burned onto CDs using my
> > step-brother's burner, which is on a Windows box. I burned it on using
> > the DirectCD system. Anyway, I compiled Joliet extension support into
> > my kernel and can mount the CDs fine; I get a directory listing, and
> > all seems to work okay.
>
> NOTE: Unless directed to "Make CD readable by most other CD-ROMs" or
> some such, DirectCD writes using "CDFS" and doesn't write some other
> necessary info for ISO9660/Joliet conformance. If I understand
> correctly, this "CDFS" is UFS?? This may not be the problem, since I
> wonder how Linux could mount the CD without the newer filesystem support
> (maybe it looks close enough to iso9660 to fool the kernel?). It's
> worth investigating though... I know for a fact, if you don't do this
> with DirectCD, older Windows machines will not be able to read these
> CD's (not to mention Mac's).
CDFS = UDF afaik, the 2.4 kernel has read-only support for UDF, so i
don't think it's very close to iso9660.
i suggest burning the CD with some other windows burning program, like
easy cd creater, nero or winoncd
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> Name: Alson van der Meulen <
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Well, my files were backed up.
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