Friday, February 29, 2008

Problem and partial solution 21: unreadable CD

My mom brought over a CD recorded on Windows which my system refused to read. The dmesg output was

ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'foto', timestamp 2008/02/02 19:45 (1000)
udf: udf_read_inode(ino 547) failed !bh
UDF-fs: Error in udf_iget, block=1, partition=1
UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'foto', timestamp 2008/02/02 19:45 (1000)
udf: udf_read_inode(ino 547) failed !bh
UDF-fs: Error in udf_iget, block=1, partition=1

Apparently this is a known problem for other kernels as well. I solved it with a suggestion from
this message board

mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrecorder/ -t iso9660

(this only runs as root). Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a permanent fix for this :(