Reading PC CD-Rs on A1200

[Vincent]

I'm using the PC on the net to download stuff.  When I've got a lot of stuff, I put it onto CD.

When I use the CD on my Amiga, I only get 8.3 filenames, but not the usual Win9x 8.3 names.  They look like this:

BeneathASteelSky   becomes    BeneathA
BeneathASteelSkyCD32   becomes   Beneath2

On the PC I'm using NeroExpress 5.5.9.7.
On the A1200 I've got:
CacheCDFS 112.6
AmiCDFS 2.30

How can I read these files with the proper full names on the A1200?

Cheers in advance.

[jeffimix]

I looks like its cutting them off for DOS compatibility. DOS can only use 8 character filenames without an add-on.

[Vincent]

I thought about that aswell, but it renames the files slightly differently - I suppose that's because it's using a different filesystem.

Is there any way to write the files on Win2k, and read the full names on the A1200?

[carls]

I think this has something to do with the CD file system. I don't know anything about this, but considering how cheap writable CDs are nowadays, I'd just try out different file systems (Joliet?) until it works allright.

Edit:
Then there's also the cheater's easy solution :-)
Divide the files into archives, unpack them on your Amiga and the file names are intact!

[jeffimix]

Well the CD filesystem and directory gets burned on by the burner.  I cna't think of hwy the naems are chopped, perhaps try another burner on a trial basis?

[Vincent]

carls wrote:

Then there's also the cheater's easy solution :-)
Divide the files into archives, unpack them on your Amiga and the file names are intact!

That's what I might end up doing.

[Golem!dk]

You don't say which cd filesystem you are using on your Amiga, you can't use both AmiCDFS and CacheCDFS unless you mount the drive twice.

Anyway CacheCDFS will read the long filenames on a CD created with Nero (Joliet), if you are already using CacheCDFS you simply need to edit your preferences and enable the Joliet option for your drive. If there is no Joliet option you probably need a newer version, it is present in the OS3.9 version and should be in the latest IDEfix release as well.

If you are currently using AmiCDFS, you will need to change your CDFS since AmiCDFS doesn't support long filenames on Joliet volumes.

[Vincent]

I'm using CacheCDFS 112.6 from my IDEfix 97 disk.  This was installed before OS3.9.

The version on OS3.9's CD is 42.19.  During 3.9's installation I probably told it not to overwrite the IDEfix file because it thinks that the IDEfix file is a later version.  I renamed CacheCDFS 112.6 and copied it from OS3.9's CD, rebooted, and it works.

Cheers mate! :-D

I knew it'd probably be something simple, but I didn't think it would be this.  (i.e. IDEfix claiming to be a newer version than OS3.9!)

[z36ra]

Joilet is the trick. also make sure that you select large file names.
What version of nero?

[Vincent]

z36ra wrote:
Joilet is the trick. also make sure that you select large file names.

Yeah, when I copied the CacheCDFS from OS3.9's CD, it worked fine, in the Prefs "No Joliet Names" was unticked. :-)

What version of nero?

Vincent wrote in his first post:
On the PC I'm using NeroExpress 5.5.9.7.

;-)

[Vincent]

It's strange, the difference between version numbers of CacheCDFS:

IDEfix 97 (bought a couple of years ago) - 112.6

OS3.9 CD(Version 2) - 42.19

The numbers are massively different.