Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:14:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd9660 mounts... Message-ID: <199809261214.OAA24718@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199809260647.IAA14017@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Sep 26, 98 08:47:58 am"
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In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote:
>
> An alternative hack (which seems to work and requires very little
> modification -- just 4 lines in the device driver!) is to use the
> device minor number to identify the track, so that you can say
>
> mount -t cd9660 -o -s=0 /dev/wcd0tN /cdrom
>
> to mount the n-th track.
>
> In the above you _need_ to specify the "-s=0" option to mount_cd9660
> because otherwise it tries to access the last data track on the disk.
>
> Opinions ? Is this something worth adding to the system ? It is totally
> backward compatible and nonintrusive.
I think this method is the best one, we can keep the mods in the
atapi-cd devicedriver which still is sortof alpha code. That wont
make it work for SCSI CDROM's, but that just too bad...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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