Re: [TCLUG:6858] Reading Joliet CD-ROMs

[barnabas@pobox.com]

It was definitely not written with the software that shipped with the
drive.  We had problems earlier burning CD with the software that
shipped with the drive, so we bought this.  It may not be the "Deluxe"
version, but it some adjective that's supposed to make it sound like the
neatest thing since sliced bread.

I also checked and it is set to create Joliet CD's.  Could it possible
be mixing in this packet-writing technique?  Can the packet-written CD's
be read at all on other platforms?  (Most of the CD can be read quite
well.)

Thanks for your help.

Eric

Neal Tovsen wrote:
> 
> Are you sure it was Easy CD Creator Delux? I haven't had any problems with
> the Joilet extensions on CD's I've made.
> 
> Adaptec makes another product that ships with a lot of IDE drives called
> Direct CD. It allows you to use your CD writer like a normal removable
> drive (drag-n-drop, etc.). It works through a completely different format
> that uses a paket-writing technique. Those CD's are only readable on
> Windows 95/98/NT OS's.
> 
> You wouldn't happen to have gotten the names switched, perhaps? I've
> gotten them confused at times, so I thought it'd be worth asking...
> 
> Neal
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 barnabas@pobox.com wrote:
> 
> > I have a CD-ROM which was burned on a Windows 95 machine using Adaptec's
> > Easy CD Creator Deluxe (some fairly recent version).  When I try to
> > mount that CD on my Linux box (straight Slackware 4.0.0 installation),
> > some of the files and directories don't show up.  For instance there is
> > a directory named _no_value_ that simply isn't listed in it's parent
> > directory.  It does show up under Windows.
> >
> > I have the Joliet extension compiled into my kernel as well as natural
> > language support (as modules).  I've tried loading just the iso8859-1
> > module as well as all NLS modules, but I still can't see the directory.
> > Any ideas as to how to make this things magically appear?
> >