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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:08:44 -0700
From:      Michelle Weeks <tristan11@mindspring.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cdrom - device not configured error
Message-ID:  <A6D7D654-737C-11D7-BD77-000393843210@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <200304201317.03741.chris@topher.gintera.net>

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On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Christopher Rosado wrote:

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> On Friday 18 April 2003 03:35 pm, Michelle Weeks wrote:
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>> i'm trying to mount /dev/acd0c and i keep getting the error "device 
>> not
>> configured".  the freebsd handbook states that either the drive does
>> not think there is a cd in the tray or the machine can't see the drive
>> on the bus.  i've put the cd in the tray several times, tried multiple
>> cds that can be read by another freebsd machine and still the error
>> "device not configured".  this is a production server and i would like
>> to avoid bringing the server down if at all possible.  is there a way
>> to tell if the machine can see the cdrom drive on the bus?  or is 
>> there
>> something else that could be causing this behavior?
>
> I noticed this several months ago after CVSUP'ing to a new codebase 
> (don't
> remember if it was to a new -RELEASE or -STABLE, although I think it 
> was
> around 4.6[.x]).  A friend on IRC also ran into this sometime after I 
> did, so
> I'm fairly sure it wasn't something specific to my machine... perhaps 
> a bug.
>
> Using "mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0a /cdrom" worked for me and my buddy.  
> FWIW, the
> *correct* behavior is working for me again on 4.8, so you may want to
> consider a CVSUP.

that did it!!!!  :  )   thank you so much and thanks to the rest of the 
folks who also tried to help me out.



>
>
> - --
> Christopher Rosado
> "Liberalism leads to loss of liberty." - Me
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logcabinyouth/
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