G'day, It appears that files with size greater than 65536 bytes when read from a cd9660 mounted filesystem appear corrupted. Happens on any cd-rom I try regardless of where it was burnt, even the original 5.1-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso now appears corrupt.
# uname -v FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Sat Nov 8 16:19:16 EST 2003... kern.osreldate: 501113 # atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: acd0 <PHILIPS DVD+RW SDVD6004/1.03> ATA/ATAPI rev 5 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: ad2 <IC25N060ATMR04-0/MO3OAD0A> ATA/ATAPI rev 6 Slave: no device present # atacontrol mode 0 Master = UDMA33 Slave = BIOSPIO Test data: 1. Copied /lib /libexec /etc (others) to directory from which to make an ISO. 2. Made an ISO image using: # /usr/local/bin/mkisofs -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -c boot.catalog \ -r -J -V FreeBSD_51 -o freebsd51.iso . 3. Burnt it to CD: # /usr/sbin/burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 8 data freebsd51.iso fixate Test #1, read filesystem from mounted CD shows corruption: # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom # diff /cdrom/lib/libc.so.5 /lib/libc.so.5 Binary files /cdrom/lib/libc.so.5 and /lib/libc.so.5 differ # diff /cdrom/etc/services /etc/services 1912,1914c1912,1970 < www-dev 2784/tcp #world wide [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..more garbage... < ^H [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\xc3\xbf\xff\xff\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^ @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] client-server protocol --- > www-dev 2784/tcp #world wide web - development > www-dev 2784/udp #world wide web - development .. There are numerous other differences, for example, # strings /cdrom/lib/libc.so.5 shows data I found in /usr/ports/devel/boost/pkg-plist Test #2, read filesystem from mounted ISO image, shows CD data is OK: # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=cdrom.iso bs=2k 189376+0 records in 189376+0 records out 387842048 bytes transferred in 188.299548 secs (2059708 bytes/sec) # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /home/iso/cdrom.iso -u 4 # mount_cd9660 /dev/md4 /cdrom # diff /cdrom/lib/libc.so.5 /lib/libc.so.5 and # diff /cdrom/etc/services /etc/services shows files are equal. regards, Taras _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"