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- From: adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
- Subject: Re: multi-session Photo CDs (was Re: Reading CD-I)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.104904.1693@ica.philips.nl>
- Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Dec16.075227.302@mble.philips.be> <1992Dec17.085006.1436@ica.philips.nl> <JK.92Dec17202429@leo.tools.de>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:49:04 GMT
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- In article <JK.92Dec17202429@leo.tools.de> jk@tools.de (Juergen Keil) writes:
- >> by zero or more CD-DA tracks. I've seen a PhotoCD, burned by a Kodak
- >> photoshop, that contained 38 tracks with 103 pictures in total. The first
- >> track contained a file system which points to all 103 picture files.
- >
- >That's true. I have a single session Photo CD with 13 pictures on it,
- >and it contains 8 tracks, the first track contains the ISO 9660 fs and
- >the CD-I files and the following tracks contain 2 - 3 pictures each.
- >But things get really interesting with a real 2 session Photo-CD I've
- >got: Here you have an updated ISO 9660 filesystem starting on track 3
- >pointing to pictures in track 2 and track 4 (overwriting the ISO 9660
- >filesystem in track 1 which (obviously) has only pointers to the
- >pictures from the first session).
-
- How are the blocks numbered? Normally, in an ISO9660 fs, the first block
- is block 150 in the track. If files are stored in previous track, one
- should use negative numbers, or what? Or do they use absolute block
- numbers, in stead of track relative numbers?
-
- >I'm surpised that I havn't seen someone complaining that he still can
- >only access the first session of a multi-session Photo-CD on his brand
- >new multi-session drive, because the OSs ISO 9660 filesystem code is
- >unaware of the updated directory structure of the disc!
-
- I suspect that the multi-session MSCDEX low-level device driver recognizes
- a multi-session CD and presents only the last fs to MSCDEX.
-
- Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
- Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
-