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Date:      Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:23:54 +0200
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's
Message-ID:  <4A2EB6CA.6090506@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20090609190728.GA76887@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <4A2EAF98.70700@eskk.nu> <20090609190728.GA76887@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Roland Smith skrev:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:53:12PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>> Hello list
>>
>> I've got a CD-R from a friend, (who runs windows) that I cannot mount on 
>> my 7.2-RELEASE system. It's readable in another windows machine.
>>
>> Other CD and DVD's is no problem but this one is.
>>
>> The error I get is:
>>
>> mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom
>> mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
>>
>> I've Googled and read the handbook but I think my settings are ok.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> Is your friend running MS "vista" by any chance? 
> Because that version by default now uses an UDF-based "live file system"
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_File_System].
> 
> Try mount_udf, or tell your friend to make a proper CD filesystem
> (called "mastered" in MS parlance).
> 
> Roland

I tried that as well, same error unfortunately

mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom
mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument

So is this a new MS filesystem that no one but Vista users can read? I'm 
afraid we'll properly see more of these problems unless support is added 
to the mount command.

/Leslie




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