Read UDF CD's

I backed up lots of my pictures, music, and documents onto disks using Windows Vista’s native CD/DVD burner. When I put the discs into my laptops CD/DVD drive it says:

UDF Volume - KDE Daemon
A new medium has been detected
Medium type: Unmounted CD Writer

When I choose to open in a new window, I get an error in Konqueror saying:

mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

I’ve searched for the problem and it seems Linux can’t read discs using the UDF filesystem. I’ve installed UDFtools in Yast but the problem still remains. I have a Phillips DVD-RAM SDVD8821 with OpenSUSE 10.2 running KDE.

Is there anyway I can get Konqueror to read the discs?

Thanks for any help or advice.

When searching through the forum I found a few other unreplied queries about UDF discs. Are they completely unreadable in Linux? Any help or advice would be great.

Thanks.

try the following:

open console, log in as su and enter root password:

mkdir /mnt/dvd
mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
chmod 777 /mnt/dvd

should work, works for me. can make an fstab entry if you wish.

this assumes your dvd drive is /dev/sr0, it might be different

It says that “mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist”. I presume my DVD drive must be somewhere else, how do I find where it is?

Thanks very much for your help.

TimDavies schrieb:
> It says that “mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist”. I presume
> my DVD drive must be somewhere else, how do I find where it is?

According to your initial posting in this thread it’s at /dev/hdb :-p

HTH
T.


Tilman Schmidt t.schmidt@phoenixsoftware.de
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According to your initial posting in this thread it’s at /dev/hdb :-p

Thanks, but when I try that I get the following:

mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Which is the same error message I got before.

TimDavies schrieb:
> Thanks, but when I try that I get the following:
>
>> mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
>> missing codepage or other error
>> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>> dmesg | tail or so

Did you follow that advice?
What does your syslog say?


Tilman Schmidt t.schmidt@phoenixsoftware.de
Phoenix Software GmbH www.phoenixsoftware.de
Adolf-Hombitzer-Str. 12 Amtsgericht Bonn HRB 2934
53227 Bonn, Germany Geschäftsführer: W. Grießl

I’m sorry, but where is the system log stored in Linux? I’ve looked in /var/log but I don’t know which one to look in?

TimDavies schrieb:
> I’m sorry, but where is the system log stored in Linux? I’ve looked in
> /var/log but I don’t know which one to look in?

/var/log/messages would be the best bet. Alternatively, the dmesg
command will work on openSUSE too, but you’ll want to capture its
output in a file for perusal, like so:

dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.out

HTH
Tilman

Thanks for the help, this is in messages:

Jun 25 09:39:00 tim-laptop kernel: UDF-fs: No fileset found

and this in dmesg, it says the same thing:

UDF-fs: No fileset found

My system is completely up-to-date as I’ve run through the online update, so I don’t know what I else need to do. Any suggestions?

TimDavies wrote:

>
> Thanks for the help, this is in messages:
>
>> Jun 25 09:39:00 tim-laptop kernel: UDF-fs: No fileset found
>
> and this in dmesg, it says the same thing: > UDF-fs: No fileset found
>
> My system is completely up-to-date as I’ve run through the online
> update, so I don’t know what I else need to do. Any suggestions?
>
>
Installing udftools might solve your problems - afaik it worked for me in
10.3. Just checked 11.0: udftools is not installed by default.

hth,
Chris

TimDavies schrieb:
> Thanks for the help, this is in messages:
>
>> Jun 25 09:39:00 tim-laptop kernel: UDF-fs: No fileset found

Googling for that message reveals several complaints about Vista-burnt
CDs/DVDs not being readable by non-Windows systems such as OSX or Linux.
Apparently MS invented a new incompatibility. One proposed workaround
was to tell Vista to not use the latest UDF version but the second
latest.

HTH
T.

PS: Is this thread really at home in o.s.h.hardware?