>From: Thomas Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Today I've upgraded to cdrecord 1.9/mkisofs 1.13 under Solaris 2.7. I am
>using cdrecord for archiving weather data. Right after burning the CD, I'm
>doing a compare run by mounting the freshly burned CD and comparing file
>by file. Only when all files compare o.k., I delete the files from the
>harddisk.
>Now I thought it might be a good idea to have the CDs also readable
>by Windows (with long filenames) and I've also read that specifying
>-R and -J together is now possible in mkisofs.
>So I've modified my scripts to use it. Much to my surprise, the resulting
>CD-ROM cannot be mounted under Solaris 2.7 anymore. Neither in the
>CD-Writer drive nor in the standard CD-ROM drive. All I get is an I/O
>error. Sometimes Solaris even seems to hang for a short period of time
>when trying to mount this CD. The mouse cursor doesn't move anymore and
>the harddisks are quiet. I've never seen this before. Apparently the
>SCSI bus is reset completely.
>However, the CD-ROM can be used under Windows without problems.
This is a result of a readahead bug in Solaris 7
THe cdrecord web page lists a patch that fixes it....
Read README.copy & README.verify
As it turns out, that many OS more or less suffer from a similar bug,
recent mkisofs versions automatically add padding.
J�rg
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