Can't read CD in linux, can in xp

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:49:05 PDT 2004


Quoth Joel Hammer:
> 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?

<WAG>
Something about Joliet extensions, perhaps?
</WAG>

Anything in the logs vis-a-vis trying to read the CD-ROM?

Kurt
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