[wellylug] accessing CD/DVD

[Jamie Dobbs]

> E.Chalaron wrote:
>> Hi all
>> I have been given a DVD with data on it...
>> This DVD can be accessed on a windows machine but not on my Linux box.
>> I know the filenames include some '#', could this be a probleme ?
>> I got some I/O error when I cd /mnt/cdrom
>> It s an IDE DVD pioneer drive
>>
>> Anybody with an idea ?
>
> Do you have UDF support in your kernel (or as a module)? Do other DVDs
> work ok, or is it just that one?
>
Personally I'd be more concerned that the kernel had Joliet and VFAT
support since the disc reads OK in Windows and not in Linux. I've had this
problem in the past and the lack of VFAT and Joliet was the cause (from
memory).