"empty" disc undeer f11/f10

[Robin Laing]

Christoph Höger wrote:

> 
> Am Montag, den 25.05.2009, 14:11 -0600 schrieb Robin Laing:
>> Christoph Höger wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> something strange happened today. I got an _important_ cd and simply
>>> wanted to copy the data from it. My kernel thinks its empty ("this disc
>>> doesn't ..."). But under Vista I can read the data. Is that some kind of
>>> windows magic? Unfinished disc or stuff or did I encounter a bug?
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> christoph
>>>
>> Possible mulitsession disk that wasn't created properly.  I have had 
>> that happened in the past.  Check to see how much blank space there is. 
>>     The session may not have been closed properly.
>>
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/multisession-dvd-is-there-a-solution-578418/
>>
>>
>> This may be useful.
>>
>> http://www.theblackpawn.com/step-by-step-tutorial-to-burn-a-multisession-cd-in-linux.php
>>
>> -- 
>> Robin Laing
>>


 > Hi all,
 >
 > thanks for your advice. It seems that disc was indeed not finalized. I
 > wonder if there is a way to determine that (trying to burn such a disc
 > after thinking "wohoo found an empty one" surely would make things
 > worse).

I agree.  It would be nice if there was a default way to test for 
multi-session disks and their status.  Is that kernel or some other 
application?

Glad I pointed you in the right direction.