Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

[Roland Smith]

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
-- 
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
[plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated]
pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914  B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 196 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20090609/f413d38e/attachment.pgp