Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:41:19 -0000 From: "CB" <ecliptica.ww@virgin.net> To: "Ralph Wallis" <mischief@optushome.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 - ATAPI-CDROM won't mount Message-ID: <000a01c1a3a6$ad8d45e0$1254fd3e@newroad.org> References: <3.0.5.32.20020122024753.0079e910@mail.virgin.net> <20020123090805.B8268@localhost>
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Hi Ralph
Thanks for your response. I've tried this with several "known good" CDs:
A Star Office CD from Sun (which I've installed fine on the MSDOS
partition of my laptop)
A FreeBSD ver 2.2.7 ports collection CD from Walnut Creek - one I've
been using for years
The Cheap*Bytes version 4.0 CD which originally installed the system on
the PC in question.
When it's refusing to co-operate, I find that no CD will work in the drive,
and the only way to cure seems to be to rebuild the OS with one of the
versions with which it happens to behave - and make sure the Linux emulator
goes nowhere near it!
I'm due to do a talk/demo on "Free Software and Alternative Operating
Systems" on Friday, and I'd have liked to have got Star Office onto the
FreeBSD box in time for that, so if anyone out there can suggest an easy
fix, it would be most welcome.
Cheers
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Wallis <mischief@optushome.com.au>
To: Charlie Brewster <ecliptica.ww@virgin.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 - ATAPI-CDROM won't mount
> hi, i have the same problem with some cds, but not others. I
> haven't worked out the common factor. Check if it's the particular
> CD you're trying.
>
> On Tuesday, 22 Jan 2002 at 02:47, Charlie Brewster
<ecliptica.ww@virgin.net> wrote:
> > My FreeBSD box has a CDROM drive being recognised as /dev/acd0c
> >
> > "dmesg" shows:
> > acd0: CDROM<ATAPI-CDROM> at ata0-slave using PIO4
> >
> > "uname -a" gives:
> > FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Sun Jan 20 23:06:54 GMT 2002
> > root@/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> >
> > The machine is a P300 with 128 Mbytes RAM.
> > FreeBSD is the only operating system.
> >
> > With version 4.4 when I try to mount the CDROM as root immediately after
> > booting I get the following:
> > # mount /cdrom
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Device busy
> > #umount /cdrom
> > umount: /cdrom: not currently mounted
> >
> > I noticed this problem originally with FreeBSD 4.0, although it may only
> > have started after I installed the Linux emulator.
> >
> > After upgrading by cvsup to 4.1 and I found the CDROM worked OK to start
> > with, but failed as above after I installed the Linux emulator.
> >
> > With versions 4.2 and 4.3 the CDROM seemed to work OK although I didn't
try
> > invoking the Linux emulator in either case.
> >
> > With 4.4 it fails consistently and the Linux emulator has never been run
> > since the upgraded OS was installed.
> >
> > I looked in the TODO files in the isofs source directory and tried
> > "mount -t isofs -o -norrip /dev/acdoc /cdrom"
> > which might or might not have done the trick had "Rockridge Extensions"
> > been the problem, but that just gives:
> > mount: exec mount_isofs not found in /sbin /usr/sbin
> > No such file or directory.
> >
> > Is anyone aware of any recent changes which might have been incorporated
> > into 4-STABLE or 4-CURRENT which might resolve this problem? Is there
> > anything I can run to diagnose it further?
> >
> > Many thanks for any help.
> > Charles
> >
> >
> >
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