Puppy 528 can't read DVD data disk made by Windows
Posted: Wed 11 Jan 2012, 07:49
Subject description: can't mount
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Yesterday night I had my first encounter of a challenge 528 can't solve.
My wife gave me a DVD+R with photo's from a happening at her local school, and she wanted a copy.
DVD in reader/burner, start Pburn, and Pburn gave me a strange reading. In the size/free bar it indicated 4.8Gbytes free + 2.2 Gbytes occupied (7 Gbyte total). And any action (copy or save to iso file on harddisk) did not work. Stopped Pburn.
Then I tried to mount the drive. Pmount responded with a red "cannot mount" popup.
I started to doubt the DVD (bad disk ?) and rebooted the PC in Windows XP (never even took the disk from the drive), and XP opended the disk, and said it was 4.8Gbytes total standard DVD+R and had 2.2Gbytes occupied. It was a data disk. It copied the 4 folders (with all the JPG pictures in it) fine.
I was stunned, this was the first time 528 could not help me. My experience up to now was that it did anything. Whatever task you throw at it, it simply has a way to solve the problem. (Last challenge was recording protected audio from internet, via audio out - audio in analog cable ... it has tools for everything).
I am not sure if anyone has a clue what this problem is ? Maybe it is a disk format that 528 does not support. If I can help to improve Puppy by debugging, tell me what I can do. I am curious what causes this.
Noticed on Lucid 528-2 with all instant updates up to rerwin patch 6.
Will test today on fresh iso 528-4.
Volhout
This bug has been confirmed by others (see puppy:projects:lucid528 thread), also happens at DVD-RW and DVD-R data disks.
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Yesterday night I had my first encounter of a challenge 528 can't solve.
My wife gave me a DVD+R with photo's from a happening at her local school, and she wanted a copy.
DVD in reader/burner, start Pburn, and Pburn gave me a strange reading. In the size/free bar it indicated 4.8Gbytes free + 2.2 Gbytes occupied (7 Gbyte total). And any action (copy or save to iso file on harddisk) did not work. Stopped Pburn.
Then I tried to mount the drive. Pmount responded with a red "cannot mount" popup.
I started to doubt the DVD (bad disk ?) and rebooted the PC in Windows XP (never even took the disk from the drive), and XP opended the disk, and said it was 4.8Gbytes total standard DVD+R and had 2.2Gbytes occupied. It was a data disk. It copied the 4 folders (with all the JPG pictures in it) fine.
I was stunned, this was the first time 528 could not help me. My experience up to now was that it did anything. Whatever task you throw at it, it simply has a way to solve the problem. (Last challenge was recording protected audio from internet, via audio out - audio in analog cable ... it has tools for everything).
I am not sure if anyone has a clue what this problem is ? Maybe it is a disk format that 528 does not support. If I can help to improve Puppy by debugging, tell me what I can do. I am curious what causes this.
Noticed on Lucid 528-2 with all instant updates up to rerwin patch 6.
Will test today on fresh iso 528-4.
Volhout
This bug has been confirmed by others (see puppy:projects:lucid528 thread), also happens at DVD-RW and DVD-R data disks.