From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 11:56:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (c-24-98-60-141.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5885C37B416 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd.smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16xY7y-0001TR-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:56:30 -0400 Received: from scott by bsd.smnolde.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16xY7w-0001E3-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:56:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:56:28 -0400 From: "Scott M. Nolde" To: "N. Thomas" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a poltergeist unmounting my cdrom Message-ID: <20020416145628.D3949@smnolde.com> References: <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu>; from nthomas@cise.ufl.edu on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:17:30PM -0400 X-GPG_Fingerprint: 0BD6 DDB4 2978 EB60 E0C8 33F2 BC34 9087 D869 AB48 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG N. Thomas(nthomas@cise.ufl.edu)@2002.04.16 13:17:30 +0000: > * Eric Six [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