[Cube13]

Hi All,

Not sure if I am posting this in the right place, but here goes.

A friend of mine burnt a collection of ROMs for me on a DVD. He has a PC and just did a regular backup to DVD.

When I put it in my Mac, the DVD mounts without a problem, opens fine and I can see all the directories, when I go to open any of the directories they are all empty! Everything is gone!

They are regular .zip files and should be able to be seen as I have .zip files on my Mac and I see them without a problem.

Any ideas why? any way around this? and yes the DVD works fine in a PC.

Not sure if this matters but I'm running OS X.1.5

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Oops, one more quick thing, instead of posting a whole new post.

Can you watch movies burnt on a DVD+R on any Mac? Mine keeps spitting them out.

Thanks again!

[mitchell_pgh]

Ugh, first thing... UPGRADE

OS X 10.1 is so 2001...

I'm not even sure that old OS knew what DVD+Rs were

[Cube13]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Ugh, first thing... UPGRADE

OS X 10.1 is so 2001...

I'm not even sure that old OS knew what DVD+Rs were

He He

Panther is coming very soon.

Tried the DVD on my friends Mac and he is running Panther, same thing, can see the directories but they are empty.

Could it possibly be the way the DVD was burnt?

Oh, by the way, my Mac can read DVD+R perfectly, such is the power of X

[rjenkinson]

two things. first, whether your machine can or cannot read a DVD+R depends on your optical drive. some older drives can't read that format... my 500mHz ibook couldn't, but my 800mHz ibook can. second, it could be that your drive is reading the disk perfectly, but the OS isn't showing the files. if the filenames begin with a period, the OS isn't going to make those files visible. try looking at the directories via the terminal or boot into OS 9 to see if this is the case.

-r.

[Cube13]

Originally posted by rjenkinson:
two things. first, whether your machine can or cannot read a DVD+R depends on your optical drive. some older drives can't read that format... my 500mHZ ibook couldn't, but my 800mHz ibook can. second, it could be that your drive is reading the disk perfectly, but the OS isn't showing the files. if the filenames begin with a period, the OS isn't going to make those files visible. try looking at the directories via the terminal or boot into OS 9 to see if this is the case.

-r.

My machine can read DVD+R but only data ones and not video

I'll try booting in OS9 and see if that helps but could you show me how to do it in terminal? I'm extremely green there.

Thanks!

[[APi]TheMan]

Yeah, I doubt your DVD-ROM and/or your Operating System can read the DVD+R. Is the disc that the data on a DVD+R?

If the PC can read the disc and your Mac can't, it seems like the PC user forgot to "close the session" when he was burning. Leaving a session open doesn't write the "lead-out" to the disc so that you can append more data to the disc later, yet this solution isn't very compatible with other systems. Tell him to make sure he's closed the session.

And yeah, you're really missing out on 10.3... 10.1's got nothing on Panther.

[Cube13]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Yeah, I doubt your DVD-ROM and/or your Operating System can read the DVD+R. Is the disc that the data on a DVD+R?

If the PC can read the disc and your Mac can't, it seems like the PC user forgot to "close the session" when he was burning. Leaving a session open doesn't write the "lead-out" to the disc so that you can append more data to the disc later, yet this solution isn't very compatible with other systems. Tell him to make sure he's closed the session.

And yeah, you're really missing out on 10.3... 10.1's got nothing on Panther.

I have both DVD-R and DVD+R and both of them do the same thing.

Usually there isn't a problem reading DVD+R discs unless there is a video on them, then it just keeps popping out, I don't think there is a firmware upgrade for the drive

I'll check to see if the session is closed, hopefully that is all that is needed.

Next payday, Panther is coming!

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by Cube13:
My machine can read DVD+R but only data ones and not video

I'll try booting in OS9 and see if that helps but could you show me how to do it in terminal? I'm extremely green there.

Thanks!

Terminal, eh? Here we go:

Change to your optical disk:

Code:
cd /Volumes/disk_name/

Change directories

Code:
cd directory_name

List all files in directory

Code:
ls -a

There, that'll show you everything, including stuff the OS X finder normally wouldn't (like hidden files).
This method was clumsy and slow, but hopefully it made sense and you could learn from it. The fastest and most direct way would've been

Code:
ls -a /Volumes/disk_name/directory_name/

Brad