Files not showing up on CD.

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Sep 20 15:35:33 UTC 2004


Edward wrote:
> 
> 
> Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>> Hello.
>>
>> I received a CD yesterday at work and not all the files on the CD 
>> appeared in either Nautilus or using ls -al in a term window.
>>
>> 6 files were AVI which showed up but the TIF files didn't.  I had to 
>> open the CD in Windows to get the rest of the files to my usb stick.
>>
>> The CD was recorded on a Windows machine but I am not sure what 
>> software or version was used.
>>
>> Has anyone else run into this problem?
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to diagnose the problem even further?
>>
>> I am using FC1.
> 
> 
> This can happen on multisession disks. Was the data recorded under 2 or 
> more sessions?
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
> 
> 

I tried
   mount -t iso9660 -o session=1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
and received an error.  If I change session to 0 2 3 4 ... the cd 
mounts and I get a list of the same files.

-- 
Robin Laing





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