Hi,
Well, that was a learning experience. This new format sounds interesting, though I'm surprised less has been said about it in the forums and websites I peruse.
Following a hunt I found
this product, though they only offer Classic and Wintel versions, not OS X. It's also $19.95. Nevertheless, it's an option.
Further info came from
Diskinternals.com. I quote:
As shipped by Microsoft, Windows can only read UDF discs, while current (2006) releases of Mac OS X, Linux, and several other Unix's include UDF writing capability with no additional software required. Older versions of these operating systems may have limited reading capabilities, and may not support more recent versions of UDF.
There is a caveat however. Thanks to revisioning of the UDF standard (the technology underwriting the Mt. Rainier format), three distinct flavours now exist, leading to problems, and I quote:
An example is Mac OS X (10.4.5), which claims to support UDF 1.50 (see man mount_udf), yet it can only mount disks of the original format properly (it can not mount UDF disks with a VAT at all, see Sony Mavica problem, and while it appears to be able to mount CD-RWs written with a Sparing Table, it does not read its files correctly in case the files are actually remapped).
A search of Sourceforge turned up nothing containing the term Rainier, and very little containing the term UDF.
Wikipedia offers
this.
The long and the short of it seems to be: test your disk on a Mac running Tiger, it may work; test your disk on a Windows 2000 PC, it may work; test your disk on a cutting-edge version of Linux, it should work; if you have an external CD drive, try burning the
Ubuntu Live CD, booting from it, and using this to read the disk, it may work (I read that Ubuntu's Breezy Badger release was capable this way, and this may be the version on the Live CD).
Other than that, it looks like you may have to get the CD reburned in a more compatible format.
Hope this helps,
SiR G.
