[Debburn-devel] isoinfo error message

[acaribe2000 at that.com.br]

On 07/29/2013 07:57 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Today, i put a cd  with the installation of windows XP 32 bits, and issued
>> the command
>>     isoinfo -d -i  /dev/cdrom
>> An error message resulted:
>> Invalid argument: Seek error on old image.
> Is there an ISO 9660 filesystem on the CD, at all ?
> What do you get from
>
>     file -s /dev/cdrom
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The message can come from two sources: genisoimage/scsi.c and
> genisoimage/multi.c. The latter would be not plausible.
>
> A look into genisoimage/scsi.c tells that the program tries to
> move the file read pointer to the start of a data block.
> Probably called by genisoimage/diag/isoinfo.c line 933:
>    readsecs(16 + toc_offset,&ipd, ISO_BLOCKS(sizeof (ipd)));
> The variable toc_offset is supposed to be 0.
> (Not understanding what's underneath getallargs(), i assume
>   from the man page, that option -T would set a non-zero value.)
>
> Any ISO image is supposed to have a Primary Volume Descriptor
> block at address 16.
> Thus my question, whether it is an ISO 9660 filesystem.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas

Terribly sorry for troubling you all for no reason: i put the serial number
and title of Win XP in a blank disk, instead of the one that really carried
the Win OS system.