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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:17:58 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Royce <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu>
To:        Woody Carey <carey@roguewave.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906171104060.2113-100000@team7.cba>
In-Reply-To: <EB55BCC162CAD111BD0A00A0C9979E3201944D87@cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com>

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Sounds like you are trying to mount an empty drive or a cdrom that is of
different format than cd9660. 

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Woody Carey wrote:

> On my new (last night) FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE box 
> [PII-233x2, 128 Mb RAM, 4G IDE HD, IDE (ATAPI) CD]
> I have been unable to 'mount /cdrom' as root.  Trying to
> do so has resulted in the following error message:
> cd9660: Input/Output error
> 
> This is the same cd drive I used to install (flawlessly) with.
> Reading the mailing list archives, I see that the response from the
> list to this error is to the effect of "You have a flaky cd drive". 
> 
> So, does this mean I have to replace the drive?  Or is there a less
> drastic solution?  I can post dmesg output if that would help.
> TIA,
> 
> Woody
> 
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