From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 24 11:43:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08891 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:43:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA08886 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:43:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA09471; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:42:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602241942.LAA09471@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Multisession CD-R To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:42:49 -0800 (PST) From: "JULIAN Elischer" Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jerry@border.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG, bsdi-users@BSDI.COM In-Reply-To: <199602241902.MAA27791@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 24, 96 12:02:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > To the best of my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't support reading > > multivolume CDs yet. I've recently made one, but failed to read the > > second session on either FreeBSD or MS Winglows (95, FWIW). > > > > There's an urgent demand for it however, and i'm personally interested > > in getting this work. When I wrote the cdrom driver I thought about reading the first few entries in the TOC and trying to map them into the pretend disklabel that I fabricate.. it wouldn't be hard, except that there are only 8 entries in the disklabel. > > One of the Japanese engineers on the list posted about getting this > to work about a year ago. > > If I remember correctly, he also read audio format CD's as data, so > you could eliminate the DAAD conversion. > > The full multisession spec, including their Unicode extensions, is > available on the Microsoft Windows95 DDK CD. From what I remember, > multiple sessions are *required* for Unicode encoding. Better of course to NOT use a uSoft version because they keep extending hte specs this way or that without always making it obvious that it's an extension.