Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 12413
iso9660 mount is unable to read large tgz file
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:51 EDT
I burned a large (114M) tarball to my HP 7110i cdwriter using windows software. When I mount it under RedHat 6.2 using the iso9660 filesystem type, the file shows up as only 69 Megs (and of course tar and gzip see premature EOFs). But, when I put the cd in my other (windows 98) computer's cdrom, and remote mount it (samba), the full 114Megs of the file are available. I had this same problem on my computer at work as well. My Linux computer at home is a Packard Bell platinum 60 and the one at work is a Dell 460.
i've faced (and reported) a similar problem with my Compaq Pressario 1700T Laptop's CD-drive. it's true for both USB connected CD-Drive (a Mitsumi CD- Writer i have), a PCMCIA CD-Drive, and the inbuilt FutureBay Drive (an LG8080B drive, actually an 8xDVD drive). the thing is in my case, whether the CD is ISO9660 or any other format, it hangs for (with kernel generating sys log messages, block read failed or something)... for any file greater than about 18MB... this is true for both original CD's and for CD's burnt by me. my sys configuration is PIII 1.1GHz, 128MB RAM and using RH7.2 base version (i.e. without any upgrades).
the bug# 58151 corresponds to the problem i reported and talked about in my last post. my guess is they are related to this problem.
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