Re: reading a scanned picture from an unknown CD or DVD disk

From: Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:58:02 UTC
Please ignore my message, 

# mount_udf /dev/cd0 /mnt

did the trick.

	matthias

El día jueves, noviembre 13, 2025 a las 11:49:55a. m. +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've a very old slide positive (a framed picture of 24x36mm). A local
> drugstore scanned the picture and returned me disk, a CD or DVD. But I
> can't mount it as cd9660 file system. The only thing I can do is:
> 
> # grep cd0 /var/log/message
> Nov 13 12:01:35 e6330-r314251 kernel: cd0 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
> Nov 13 12:01:35 e6330-r314251 kernel: cd0: <PLDS DVD+-RW DU-8A5HH SD11> Removable CD-ROM SCSI device
> Nov 13 12:01:35 e6330-r314251 kernel: cd0: Serial Number TTYK05508134O47P3A01
> Nov 13 12:01:35 e6330-r314251 kernel: cd0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes)
> Nov 13 12:01:35 e6330-r314251 kernel: cd0: 13MB (7086 2048 byte sectors)
> 
> 
> # cat /dev/cd0 > cd0
> # ls -l cd0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  14512128 13 nov.  11:18 cd0
> 
> # file cd0
> cd0: data
> 
> # strings cd0 | more
> BEA01
> NSR02
> TEA01
> 3256792369
> 4A8508F400000FB8
> OSTA Compressed Unicode
> OSTA Compressed Unicode
> *EPSON Disc Library UDF
> *UDF LV Info
> OSTA Compressed Unicode
> 3256792369
> *EPSON Disc Library UDF
> +NSR02
> *EPSON Disc Library UDF
> OSTA Compressed Unicode
> 3256792369
> *OSTA UDF Compliant
> *EPSON Disc Library UDF
> 3256792369
> 4A8508F400000FB8
> OSTA Compressed Unicode
> OSTA Compressed Unicode
> ...
> 
> What can I do to get the picture on my X11 screen and/or convert it to JPEG
> or TIFF?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	matthias
> 
> 
> -- 
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