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Re: CDROM writer on RedHat

 
John Downs_1
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CDROM writer on RedHat


Greetings, I have a CDROM writer Plexwriter 8/20 that I use for making archives of designs.
I create the image with mkisofs and copy to the cd with cdrecord. I have encountered a few limitations with file names on the image. It appears to write everything in lower case and the file length is limited to 30 chararcters.
Is there a better solutions? Software or hardware that write to a CD without these limitations?

Thanks!

-john
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Steven Mertens
Trusted Contributor

Re: CDROM writer on RedHat

hi,

Maybe it depends on the way you made your image.
I dont think the problem is hardware related.

You can try :

mkisofs -r -o -J -R

rgds.

Steven
Stuart Browne
Honored Contributor

Re: CDROM writer on RedHat

Yup. I agree with Steven.

Basically you're just creating the ISO image using standard ISO9660 format ('mkisofs' with '-l').

Enabling either "RockRidge" (-r) or "Joliet" (-J) extensions to the format allow you to increase the file-name length, and support the mixed case names.

You might also want to generate a "TRANS.TBL" (-T) for those other OS' that don't support either of the above formats.

These are all detailed in 'man 8 mkisofs'.
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