Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2001 09:40:52 +0200 | From | Andreas Mohr <> | Subject | Re: cannot find directory on cdrom |
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:29:02AM +0100, Richard Polton wrote: > Hi, > > I have a cdrom burnt by a friend with W2000 (I know, friends don't let > friends use W ;-) which has (at least) one directory on it which I > cannot > see when mounting the disk under linux. I am using kernel 2.4.4 and > the mount command is the usual > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 > > I have Joliet compiled into the kernel too. I can send by private email > the > first 120 blocks or so of the disk if anyone is interested. I looked at > this > with hexlify and can see the mysterious directory (s?) which is called > 'sturf'. > > Thanks, > > Richard Hmm, is this the old "non-standard sector alignment" problem ? Some CDs have their directory sector entries exceed the sector, and AFAIK the problem is that they exceed it not entry by entry, but in the middle of a directory entry, which violates the ISO9660 spec. The Linux CD-ROM driver used to have a workaround for this, but then after 2.0.x it seems to have been removed.
Why ???
After all Windows perfectly accepts these broken (ISO9660 wise) CD-ROMs.
I don't know whether 2.4.x still has the same "feature" that 2.2.x had.
A Spanish language training CD of mine has this problem, and I can't read several files on it.
Hmm, or maybe your problem is simply that you forgot to enable the "hidden" mount option for your CD-ROM ?? (some files are burnt with "hidden" attribute !)
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