>From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On 24-Jun-01 Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> It will work with _old_ Sony, Toshiba and Plextor drives which all support
>> a nonstandard compliant ancient Sony command set. It _may_ be that newer
>> drives
>> from the same vendors still accept this nonstandard way of retrieving the
>> multi-session offset. However if a drive works, it is pure luck as Linux
>> does not support the method that is standard for ~ 4 years.
>Plextor Ultra Plex 40TS and Teac Burner 56S work with multisession in
>stock Linux. A DVD reader at work (Linuxsystem too) lately refused to mount a
>multisession CD. A stoneage 2x speed in a DecAlpha/OSF4 did though..... I
>didn't bother to find out what was the problem with the DVD and if I could
>coax it to read the multisession. I especially am not root on that box, so I
>couldn't try cdfs.
The bad news is that Solaris suffers from the same problem. Even worse, it
seems that the Linux code fragment has been stolen from Solaris sources.
>The cdfs module is available at:
>(second link in google on "cdfs linux", as I suggested to find it)
>http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/
>The Infos'n on the webpage suggest it's working in 2.2.X and 2.4.X kernels.
If I have some time, I'll test...
It it accepts sector numbers for session start, then you could use cdrecord
to retrieve the right number.
J�rg
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