Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:01:09 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Handbook: 16.7 Creating and Using Optical Media (DVDs) Message-ID: <20050404170108.GA608@nosferatu.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <200504040845.05669.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200504031600.27612.josh@tcbug.org> <20050404062220.GB39413@abigail.blackend.org> <20050404062900.GC39413@abigail.blackend.org> <200504040845.05669.josh@tcbug.org>
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:45:05AM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2005 01:29, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:22:20AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > If you need to pass "special" option to mount a data DVD/CD, it > > > means the filesystem on the media has some "issues" or is not > > > really "compliant". This should be marginal. > > > If we need to document it, we just have to update a bit the > > > mount_cd9660 manual page to say that issue is media independant > > > and -s 0 may be required by some "weird" data CD/DVD/whatever > > > that refuse to be mounted. > > > > I wonder if it's not a multisession issue... but I have no > > multisession data DVD under hand to test. > > What gives dvd+rw-mediainfo command on these DVDs? > > > > Marc > > So perhaps add the following to man mount_cd9660: > > EXAMPLES > > The following command can be used to mount a Kodak Photo-CD: > > mount_cd9660 -o rw -v -s 0 /dev/cd0c /cdrom > > The follwoing command can be used to mount a data DVD: > > mount_cd9660 -s 0 /dev/acd0 /cdrom > [...] As I said, "-s 0" is not required to mount a data DVD, actually only in same weird cases as for data CD; you can even mount a Video DVD just with the vanilla mount command line. So adding the suggested line, in that way, is not a good solution. Could you please look if your data DVD is correctly closed or written in multisession strategy? Marc
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