From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 11:03:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA24113 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA24105; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.3/8.8.3a) id LAA27863; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:01:55 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199709121801.LAA27863@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: mount cdrom returns "input/output error" To: arvind@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (Chandrabose ARAVINDAN) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:01:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: root@room101.sysc.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Chandrabose ARAVINDAN at "Sep 11, 97 03:09:54 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> The drive is detected on boot up too: >> >> /kernel: wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr, dma, iordis > > I don't think the system has detected the CDROM. Perhaps it misidentifies > the CDROM as a removable hard disk. So, as I suggested above, comment > those two lines and compile the kernel again. I think it is detecting the CD-ROM. Notice the "atapi" and "removable" keywords above. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com crl22@aol.com DCF, Inc. - 14523 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254