Re: HFS-formatted CDROMs (was: Re: Linux 2.4 Status)

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:38:08 +0000


Hi!
>
> Trying to change the blocksize of the CD-ROM device ends up in function
> sr_set_blocklength() (for an SCSI CD-ROM drive at least), and this sits
> in
> file drivers/scsi/sr_vendor.c, which name already tells everything.
> Changing the blocksize to 512 can succeed, but it doesn't have to.
> I wouldn't know about the prevalence of 512b-sectors-capable CD-ROM
> drives
> in the field...

What about mounting it with -o loop? That should workaround the problem
nicely.

Pavel

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