On Thursday 11 August 94, at 13 h 58, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer_at_cnam.fr>
wrote:
> It seems there is no solution or workaround. According to DEC's local
> support, the Kodak Photo-CD isn't exactly ISO 9660 and it confuses
> OSF/1 (and HP-UX, a colleague told me).
Well, it isn't true: you can mount a Kodak Photo-CD with OSF1 2.0 (or
later) with a RRD43 *but* it has to be a "AO3".
My problem was that the RD43 drive had a bug (yes, hardware bugs exist,
too). DEC just replaced it and now it works fine.
To see if your drive is OK, unmount it (unfortunately, on a DEC 3000/600,
you'll need to stop the machine and open the box and see the version
number under the type name. It has to be "A0.3" (or later, I presume).
Mine was "A02" :-(
You can also check the errlog.
% uerf -R -r 300
...
rz4 at asc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 (DEC
_ RRD43 (C) DEC 1084)
^^^^
That's OK
rz4 at asc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 (DEC
_ RRD43 (C) DEC 0064)
^^^^
Not good
In console mode on an Alpha, I was told you can use:
>>> show dev
After that, you can mount the drive:
mount -r -t cdfs -o noversion /dev/rz4c /var/tmp/cdrom
And access the files in the photo_cd/images directory.
The last version of xv, for instance (
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv,) is
supposed to read Kodak Photo-CD format. There is also a "hpcdtoppm" which
works well to convert PCD to PPM (use Archie to find it, after that, many
programs can convert the "lingua franca" PPM to anything). I was told
ImageMagick can do that now.
Thanks to all those who searched (and to Jean-Marc Vincent who founded!).
Stephane Bortzmeyer Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
bortzmeyer_at_cnam.fr Laboratoire d'Informatique
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Received on Fri Jan 20 1995 - 05:31:39 NZDT