Well, I do still have an OS/2 installation running, and it does have a CD-ROM drive.
I'm open to trying them out for you - but it'll have to be on Tuesday or Wednesday, after 7pm. reply privately if you want to come around and we'll work something out. Wesley Parish On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:51, you wrote: > Hello Wesley, > > Thanks for your reply, the disks are probably about a year old, I have > tried reading them on 3 different cdrom drives but every one comes up with > invalid media. Trying with Linux doesn't give much info at all and I never > bothered to hunt through the logs to try and find out. I was hoping maybe a > list member might be running os/2 and could try them out for me. regards > Paul. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wesley Parish > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats > > > While I'm reasonably familiar with OS/2, I am totally unfamiliar with any > CD-ROM reading or writing stuff that may have come with it - I got into - > and out of - OS/2 before CD-ROMs became popular. > > That being said, how old are the discs? Most CD-ROMs these days are in > some form of the iso9660 file system format, with either Rock Ridge or MS > Joliet extensions to handle directory structures that are deeper than the > mandatory 8 subdirectories deep. (Or is it 16? I've forgotten.) While > Apple has their HFS CD-ROM directory structure. > > Perhaps the problem isn't with the file formats as much as with the > recording type - I've encountered problems with drives refusing to read or > write to certain colours. > > That's all I can do for the time being. > > Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
