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Yggdrasil Computing Inc. This is a useful concession to us CDROM mastering weenies out here. Obtained from: Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
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75 lines
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I am enclosing 3 test programs that I use to verify the
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integrity of an iso9660 disc. The first one (isodump) is pretty
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simple - it dumps to the screen the contents of the various
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directories. The second one (isovfy) goes through and looks for
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problems of one kind or another.
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To use, type something like "./isodump /dev/ramdisk" or
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"./isodump /dev/scd0", depending upon where the iso9660 disc is. It
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starts by displaying the files in the first sector of the root
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directory. It has some pretty simple one letter commands that you
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can use to traverse the directory tree.
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a - move back one sector.
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b - move forward one sector.
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g - go to new logical sector.
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q - quit
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The a and b commands do not try and stop you from going past the
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beginning or end of a sector, and the g command does not have any way
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of knowing whether the sector you request is actually a directory or
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not.
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The output is displayed in several columns. The first column
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is the total length of the directory record for the file. The second
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column (in [] brackets) is the volume number. Next comes the starting
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extent number (in hex), and then comes the file size in bytes. Then
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cones the filename (not the Rock Ridge version), and this is preceeded
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by an "*" if the file is a directory. After this is a summary of the
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Rock Ridge fields present along with a display of the translation of
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the symbolic link name if the SL Rock Ridge record is present.
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I tailored this program for debugging some of the problems
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that I was having earlier. The idea is that you can tailor it
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to test for problems that you might be having, so it is not intended
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as a be-all and end-all dump program.
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If you move to a sector that does not contain directory
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information, the results are unpredictable.
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The second program, isovfy, is run in the same way as isodump,
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except that you do not have to do much except let it run. I have it
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written to verify all kinds of different things, and as people find
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other sorts of problems other tests could be added.
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The third program, dump.c, basically does a hexdump of the cd.
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This is screen oriented, and there are some simple commands:
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a - move back one sector.
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b - move forward one sector.
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f - enter new search string.
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+ - search forward for search string.
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g - go to new logical sector.
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q - quit
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Note that with the 'g' command, sectors are always given in
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hex, and represent 2048 byte sectors (as on the cdrom). If you know
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how to decode a raw iso9660 directory, you can pick out the starting
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extent number from the hexdump and know where to go from there. The
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starting extent appears something like 30 bytes prior to the start of
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the iso9660 (not Rock Ridge) filename, and it appears in a 7.3.3
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format (meaning that it occupies 8 bytes, 4 in little endian format,
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and 4 in big endian format). Thus you should see a mirror image of
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the bytes when looking at the extent number.
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The isovfy program can also dump the contents of the path
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tables, but this capability is commented out right now. Feel free
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to enable this to see what is in the tables. Ultimately I may fix
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it so that this checks the integrity of the tables as well.
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The isovfy program gives warnings about things like files that
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have a size of 0 but have an extent number assigned. The mkisofs program
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should never do this, but the YM software does leave these around.
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I think it is probably harmless in the YM case.~
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