Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:43:21 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Kevin Serwick <kserwick@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading raw data from a CD-R with damaged table of contents Message-ID: <200401071343.i07DhMPG062912@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040106225617.65937.qmail@web60110.mail.yahoo.com>
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It seems Kevin Serwick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I added some files to a multisession CD-R with the
> burncd command. It appeared to work fine, but when I
> read the disk, the new files didn't show up. So I did
> the burncd fixate command - bad idea! Now nothing
> shows up! (burncd's no Nero Burning Rom! Live and
> learn... Is the GUI burning software usable and
> reliable?)
>
> I assume it just destroyed the table of contents.
Rather you add a new one that is empty or garbled.
> Any suggestions for how I can recover that data?
It might be posible to read the original session, I seem to remember
that it can be set somehow, but default is to always read the last.
However its been quite a few moons since I last looked in the color books.
> I couldn't find software to read raw data from
> anything. Do you guys know of anything?
> I would have to write something myself would I?
Possibly, it might be as simple as modifying the atapi-cd.c driver to
be able to read a specific session, see above...
> Do you know where I can find an ISO 9660 filesystem
> specification?
Uhm ETSI has some of them for free IIRC..
> This is possible, right?
Probably, I always feel very much at risk when saying the opposite :)
-Søren
Yes I know it works under windows!!
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