Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:56:28 -0400 From: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com> To: "N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a poltergeist unmounting my cdrom Message-ID: <20020416145628.D3949@smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu>; from nthomas@cise.ufl.edu on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:17:30PM -0400 References: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA75D@stlmail.dra.com> <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu>
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N. Thomas(nthomas@cise.ufl.edu)@2002.04.16 13:17:30 +0000: > * Eric Six <erics@sirsi.com> [2002-04-16 12:11:13 -0500]: > > > > > > 3. Worse than the mounting problem is this: After I've mounted it, I can > > > access /cdrom and use it properly. But sometimes everything sort of > > > quietly "unmounts". > > > > > > mount(1) tells me that /cdrom is still mounted, but cd'ing into > > > /cdrom and running ls shows that it is not. I can unmount it, and > > > after messing with the problems described in #2, usually mount it > > > again. > > > > This almost sounds to me like your having some hardware issues.. possibly > > the cdrom or maybe the controller that the cdrom is on. If you do not have > > access to another cdrom, try moving the cd to the other ide controller. > > Hmm...I forgot to mention this, but for reasons I cannot recall at the > moment, I placed the second hard drive as a slave on the same IDE controller > as the cdrom. > > Would this cause problems? Why? > I believe this would cause a problem. I've always had the CDROM devices act as a slave to the hard drive on the same IDE channel. So try setting the CDROM to slave and use the hard disk as the master and see if that helps. -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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