Multi-session CDROM access... How?

[Mike McCarty]

Robin Laing wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Tim wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:53 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>
>>>> I used xcdroast to create a multi-session CDROM. Then later,
>>>> I added another session, also as multi-session. Now when I access
>>>> the CDROM, I only see the files I added during the second session.
>>>>
>>>> Where are the first files I put on there? How can I get to them?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is the next session set up to add to the previous (importing the
>>> directory structure) or start afresh (just using up the left over space
>>> instead of a new disc)?
>>>
>>> There are various different ways of using multi-session discs.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know. When I created the disc, it seemed odd to me that
>> the default was "Fixate". ISTM that one wouldn't want to fixate
>> after writing to a multi-session. BUT when I deselected that option,
>> a pop-up warned me that it might create a disc which was unusable.
>>
>> I have tried
>>
>>     # mount -O session=<n> /mnt/cdrom
>>
>> with <n> in the range 0 to 4 inclusive, and always see the files
>> from the second session I created, but none of the files I put
>> on the disc with the first session.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
>  From this am I to understand that you fixated each session?

You are to understand exactly that.

> If a disk isn't fixated, then it can be unusable in some situations. I 
> learned this in the past.

That's what xcdroast warned me of.

> If you fixated after the first session, you don't have multiple sessions 
> but multiple writes.  This is another issue.

Hmm. Then what exactly is "Multi-session Mode"?

Mike
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