From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 18:51:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E48414CCB for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:51:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA45889; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:56:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <200001140256.VAA45889@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: mounting CD rom In-Reply-To: <000701bf5e33$66606680$04c8c8c8@number2-98.davecorp.com> from Dave Page at "Jan 13, 2000 08:02:24 pm" To: davecpage@earthlink.net (Dave Page) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:56:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-questions) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Page wrote, [snip] > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > > 3. When I try "mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom" I > get "cd96690: Input/output error" (/cdrom is where I'd like > to mount it) > > Obviously the system knows the drive is there. Am I > entering the command wrong? (If you have the time, please > walk me through this step-by-step. Total newbie.) It's not > mounted *already*, is it? I've tried going to the /cdrom > directory and doing an ls with a cd in the drive--I get > nothing. It will not mount automatically. You are using the command correctly. The error message you are getting is most often associated with two problems, (1) the CDROM has not had the chance to spin-up yet, or (2) the CDROM in the drive does not have a valid filesystem on it. To solve (1), wait until your activity light on the CDROM comes on and then turns back off when the disk is loaded before running the command. For (2), this _is_ a CD with an ISO9660 filesystem on it, right? Not an audio CD? Try another CD with a filesystem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message