On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:51, you wrote: > Hello Wesley, > > Thanks for your reply, the disks are probably about a year old, I have > tried reading them on 3 different cdrom drives but every one comes up with > invalid media. If it's saying that I suspect the problem is that the CDROM drive cannot read the disks. How old is the CDROM drive? Perhaps it could do with the lens being cleaned?
> Trying with Linux doesn't give much info at all and I never > bothered to hunt through the logs to try and find out. I was hoping maybe a > list member might be running os/2 and could try them out for me. regards > Paul. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wesley Parish > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats > > > While I'm reasonably familiar with OS/2, I am totally unfamiliar with any > CD-ROM reading or writing stuff that may have come with it - I got into - > and out of - OS/2 before CD-ROMs became popular. > > That being said, how old are the discs? Most CD-ROMs these days are in > some form of the iso9660 file system format, with either Rock Ridge or MS > Joliet extensions to handle directory structures that are deeper than the > mandatory 8 subdirectories deep. (Or is it 16? I've forgotten.) While > Apple has their HFS CD-ROM directory structure. > > Perhaps the problem isn't with the file formats as much as with the > recording type - I've encountered problems with drives refusing to read or > write to certain colours. > > That's all I can do for the time being. > > Wesley Parish -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
