Why would a valid DVD show zero files on Linux?

Bryce Nesbitt (bryce@obviously.com)
Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:51:40 -0500


I have a DVD ROM (It's DeLorme Topo USA), which works fine booted in Windows.
Under Linux it mounts fine, but shows no files. Everything looks normal, like
it should just work.

What's up? And ideas?

[root@HardHat bryce]# df
...
/dev/scd0 326028 326028 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hdc 3277426 3277426 0 100% /mnt/dvdrom

[root@HardHat bryce]# uname -a
Linux HardHat 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

[root@HardHat bryce]# cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
nodev proc
ext2
iso9660
nodev devpts
nodev usbdevfs
vfat
nodev autofs

[root@HardHat bryce]# dd if=/dev/hdc of=/tmp/A bs=1024 count=200
200+0 records in
200+0 records out
[root@HardHat bryce]# strings /tmp/A
CD001
T3DVD
DELORME ADJ 1999111712541000
2001022814540400
2001022814540400
CD001
9%/E
1999111712541000
2001022814540400
2001022814540400
CD001
BEA01
NSR02
TEA01
T3DVD
00026f70 MTC ForDVD 5.9, March 2000
OSTA Compressed Unicode
OSTA Compressed Unicode
*Multimedia Tech. Cntr.
*UDF LV Info

# grep ATAPI /var/log/messages
Dec 30 17:53:40 hardhat kernel: hdc:  DVD-ROM SD-M1402, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM
drive
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