Can't read CD in linux, can in xp

Bill Davidson harley7
Mon May 17 11:49:05 PDT 2004


On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 20:37:48 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

> At work I created a data cd with images, large and small (300kb up to
> 33 megs), with easy CD creator or some such.  I ran the option to make
> the cd readable by all cd readers. This was on windows 2000.
> 
> At home, this disk refuses to load properly with caldera 2.4 on one
> box and lindows on a second box. The transfer just sorta gives up,
> with the few images that got transferred having file errors. I double
> boot xp on the second machine, so I booted into xp, and the images
> transferred OK to the hard drive. And, they are readible when I boot
> back into lindows and read them off the windows hard drive. So, it's
> not the cdrom rom, and the images appear to be intact after being
> transferred up with xp. 
> 
> So, the question is, what happened? Why can't linux read this cd?

Does your kernel have the joliet filesystem enabled?

Bill


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