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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:35:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de>
To:        rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za (Reinier Bezuidenhout)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multi-session CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <9708250835.AA16468@merlin.ukrv.de>
In-Reply-To: <199708221016.MAA26790@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> from Reinier Bezuidenhout at "Aug 22, 97 12:16:51 pm"

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> >  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

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