Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

Leslie Jensen leslie at eskk.nu
Tue Jun 9 19:24:00 UTC 2009



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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