Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:51:51 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR Message-ID: <414BF727.8020407@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <1095471189.31148.229.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <20040917074236.A2E7C16A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <1095471189.31148.229.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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Paul Mather wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:25:37 +0200, S?ren Schmidt<sos@DeepCore.dk> > wrote: >=20 >=20 >>Jun Kuriyama wrote: >=20 >=20 >>>And, this DVD-R has a large file (3GB), and ls(1) (maybe stat(2)) >>>issues an error like this: >> >>Uhm , you cannot have file > 1G on a comliant isofs... >> >> >>>----- >>>% ls -l /cdrom/0 >>>ls: foo.tgz: Value too large to be stored in data type >>>----- >> >>See, it even tells you :) >=20 >=20 > I was bitten by this bug recently, too. I made a data DVD on FreeBSD > that included a large (~2.1 GB) file. Initially, the mkisofs in the > sysutils/cdrtools port flagged a warning about it being too large and > excluded it from the ISO image it created. >=20 > I replaced my cdrtools port with the sysutils/cdrtools-devel port. The= > newer mkisofs in that port does not flag the large file as being "too > large" and includes it in the ISO it creates. >=20 > Unfortunately, FreeBSD does not like that file when I mount the > resultant data DVD. I get that same "Value too large to be stored in > data type" error. Here's the kicker, though: "It works under Windows."= =20 > (At least it seemed to on a Windows XP system I had to hand.) >=20 > So, I'm guessing the newer mkisofs is more cognisant of the latest > standards/de facto standards than the older one. Feel free to submit patches to our iso9660 filesystem code that adds=20 support for this (this is not an ATA driver issue). But beware, if you=20 intend to make DVD's that should be played in a standalone HW player,=20 you dont want >1G files on there. -S=F8ren
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