From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 01:36:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA28939 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 01:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.ukrv.de (gatekeeper.ukrv.de [193.175.72.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA28894 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 01:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gatekeeper.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/17Oct95-0336PM) id AA09154; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:35:51 +0200 Received: from mailhost(193.175.66.33) by gatekeeper.ukrv.de via smap (V1.3-JSC) id sma025034; Mon Aug 25 10:35:38 1997 Received: from merlin.ukrv.de by mailhost.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/08Mar95-0213PM) id AA23805; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:35:28 +0200 Received: by merlin.ukrv.de (4.1/UKRV-Gen PCG 0.1) id AA16468; Mon, 25 Aug 97 10:35:27 +0200 From: Udo Wolter Message-Id: <9708250835.AA16468@merlin.ukrv.de> Subject: Re: Multi-session CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <199708221016.MAA26790@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> from Reinier Bezuidenhout at "Aug 22, 97 12:16:51 pm" To: rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za (Reinier Bezuidenhout) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:35:27 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I wonder if FreeBSD can mount a multi-session CDROM properly? (Or more, > > can it mount only one of those sessions?) > > Yes, I have written multisession CD's as was able to mount them "properly" > - meaning that I could access all the multi sessions > e.g. .. having written multi sessions dir1 dir2 and dir3 on a mount > I would see with ls -al > d....... dir1 > d....... dir2 > d....... dir3 ??? > Someone did once bring me a CD that was written on another machine (non > FreeBSD) and when I did a standard mount_cd9660 /dev/worm0 /mnt, that > I could not see all the sessions, but only the last one ... Yeah, the last one contains the other ones (the directory of the last one goes over the whole CD). > I then did a "mount_cd9660 -s 0 /dev/worm0 /mnt" and then could see > all the sessions. This was done on a 3.0-SNAP system, as I think the > -s option to mount is not supported in 2.1.X or 2.2.X ??? In this case you should only see the first session which means you can't see anything in the latter sessions. Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://LOW-TECH.home.ml.org !!!