Creating and reading multi-session CDs under Redhat 5.1

[Bob Doolittle <Robert Doolittle Eng Sun COM>]

Hi,

I've been using mkisofs and cdrecord to effectively burn CDs on my external
SCSI CD-RW device, but I can't seem to figure out how to do multi-session
CDs.  My Yamaha CDRW-4260TX is supposedly capable of multi-session.

I *think* what I'm supposed to do is the following:
  For each session, assuming I'm in the root of the dir tree I want to write:
    mkisofs -r -o isofile .
    cdrecord -multi isofile
    (I have my CDR_DEVICE and CDR_SPEED env variables set appropriately)
  It's unclear to me if I have to write the last session without the
  -multi flag to "close" the sessions, but I have the same results
  either way currently.  I also tried running "cdwrite -fix" at the
  end, but it returned an error and had no effect.

  Then, I should be able to simply mount the CD and see what amounts to
  the union of all the sessions (each session is linked to the
  previous).

What I see when I mount the CD, however, is only the first session that
I wrote.  If I mount it under WIN95, I see nothing at all.  I don't
know what I should expect to see if I mount a Rock Ridge format CD
under WIN95, but I assumed it would be somewhat compatable, just not
show the long filenames.  Maybe not...


I can run "cdrecord -toc", and see that I have several tracks, of type 2
(except if I write the last track w/o "-multi", in which case the last
track is type 1).  However, I'm only seeing the first track when I mount
it under Linux.

Does anybody see what I'm doing wrong?
If this is not the right group to ask the question, can anyone point me to
a more appropriate group?  I've asked the question of comp.os.linux.misc and
comp.os.linux.hardware, but received no response...

Does Linux not support mounting multi-session CDs currently?

Thanks for any tips,
	Bob