Will Panther FINALLY make OS X able to read the basically ubiquitus (yet un-Mac friendly) CDFS file system? I mean, if it will read NTFS, it's GOT to be able to read CDFS, right?
Will Panther FINALLY make OS X able to read the basically ubiquitus (yet un-Mac friendly) CDFS file system? I mean, if it will read NTFS, it's GOT to be able to read CDFS, right?
The Mac does NOT support it. Burn a CD on a PC (XP). and try to mount it on a Mac (OS 9 or OS X) It won't even show up as a CD at all, or the Mac will tell you it's unrecognized. I have done major tests with this. Trust me, it doesnt work. I have tested G3s G4s G5s using various OS versions and usied a lot of vendors for optical devices including CD drives, Combo drives and even the newest SuperDrives. it doesn't work.
If you burn a Joliette or other ISO 9660 CD in Toast on a Mac, it shows up on a PC and a Mac as expected, but try to burn a CD on a PC using the OEM burner software in XP for example, and the CD will NOT mount on a Mac..
Of course part of it is that the Windows CD burning libraries are buggy... they don't properly close out sessions on burning ISO CDs, so they're non-standard-compliant.
The driver in MacOS X *is*, so it has problems with these broken CDs.
MS, in classic MS fashion, instead of fixing the burning libraries, added a workaround to their driver so that it can read them. To the uninitiated, it looks like the Mac is failing. It isn't. It just hasn't been hacked to handle a non-compliant screwup.
CDFS is another issue, but this one is also in there to watch out for.
The Mac does NOT support it. Burn a CD on a PC (XP). and try to mount it on a Mac (OS 9 or OS X) It won't even show up as a CD at all, or the Mac will tell you it's unrecognized. I have done major tests with this. Trust me, it doesnt work. I have tested G3s G4s G5s using various OS versions and usied a lot of vendors for optical devices including CD drives, Combo drives and even the newest SuperDrives. it doesn't work.
If you burn a Joliette or other ISO 9660 CD in Toast on a Mac, it shows up on a PC and a Mac as expected, but try to burn a CD on a PC using the OEM burner software in XP for example, and the CD will NOT mount on a Mac..
You mean Joilet. Windows XP CDs are Joilet, not CDFS
I use that Joliet CD extension that a guy wrote for OS 9. Still have to boot into OS 9 for it. I bet he'd be willing to share the code and have somebody write an extension for OS X that supports this.
CDFS is just the name of the ISO 9660+Joliet driver. The funny thing is that the CDFS.sys driver has a habit of bluescreening even the most carefully set-up Windows boxes I've ever seen. Many people end up removing it altogether...
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Originally posted by dstranathan
Will Panther FINALLY make OS X able to read the basically ubiquitus (yet un-Mac friendly) CDFS file system? I mean, if it will read NTFS, it's GOT to be able to read CDFS, right?
Don't you mean the Joliet File System?
If you burn a Joliette or other ISO 9660 CD in Toast on a Mac, it shows up on a PC and a Mac as expected, but try to burn a CD on a PC using the OEM burner software in XP for example, and the CD will NOT mount on a Mac..
The driver in MacOS X *is*, so it has problems with these broken CDs.
MS, in classic MS fashion, instead of fixing the burning libraries, added a workaround to their driver so that it can read them. To the uninitiated, it looks like the Mac is failing. It isn't. It just hasn't been hacked to handle a non-compliant screwup.
CDFS is another issue, but this one is also in there to watch out for.
Originally posted by dstranathan
The Mac does NOT support it. Burn a CD on a PC (XP). and try to mount it on a Mac (OS 9 or OS X) It won't even show up as a CD at all, or the Mac will tell you it's unrecognized. I have done major tests with this. Trust me, it doesnt work. I have tested G3s G4s G5s using various OS versions and usied a lot of vendors for optical devices including CD drives, Combo drives and even the newest SuperDrives. it doesn't work.
If you burn a Joliette or other ISO 9660 CD in Toast on a Mac, it shows up on a PC and a Mac as expected, but try to burn a CD on a PC using the OEM burner software in XP for example, and the CD will NOT mount on a Mac..
You mean Joilet. Windows XP CDs are Joilet, not CDFS