Re: Possible to burn CD that is readable on both Windows & Solaris?

In article <43D509C4.C52ACD8E@xxxxxxx>, ohaya <ohaya@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>I have both the cygwin mkisofs.exe, but I can't seem to make a CDROM
>that Solaris will even recognize. What I mean is when I put the CDROM
>into the drive on the Sun, the light blinks for a second, and that's it.
>
>I have some other CDs that someone else made, and I put them in the Sun,
>and the light comes on (not just blinks) and the CD drive spins up. I
>can then mount those other CDROMs both manually and using volmgt.
>
>For mkisofs, I've tried:
>
>mkisofs -o cd1.iso -J -R -V mylabel \CDROMDIR [to try both Solaris/Win
>compat.]
>
>mkisofs -o cd1.iso -R -V mylabel \CDROMDIR [to try just Solaris compat.]
>
>Thus far, I've been doing the burn using Nero, and I've gone through a
>pile of CDRs, with none of them mountable on Solaris, but I'm about to
>try cdrecord. If I do that, what would an appropriate command line be?
>I'm thinking something like:
>
>cdrecord -v speed=40 -dao -device=2,0,0 -eject cd1.iso
>
>(I did the -scanbus, and the CD burner looked like "2,0,0".).
>
>Does that cdrecord command like look correct?

Getting cdrecord to work on my Sun was a pain, but eventually it did.
(We have a rather non-standard set up here.) At home, I got the
windows version and tried to run it via Cygwin. Wonder of wonders
it worked right off the bat. And I can read my CDs on both, the home
PC, and the Sun at work.

All I use for mkisofs are the -r and -J options. For cdrecord, I
did have burn failures and so started to use a speed of 4. Yes, I
burn it slowly, but never had a problem. One of these days I will
try speed=8 or speed=12, but life is not that busy!

Have you tried to read your CD in another Unix/Linux box?


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