Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:17:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Royce <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> To: Woody Carey <carey@roguewave.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906171104060.2113-100000@team7.cba> In-Reply-To: <EB55BCC162CAD111BD0A00A0C9979E3201944D87@cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com>
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Sounds like you are trying to mount an empty drive or a cdrom that is of different format than cd9660. On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Woody Carey wrote: > On my new (last night) FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE box > [PII-233x2, 128 Mb RAM, 4G IDE HD, IDE (ATAPI) CD] > I have been unable to 'mount /cdrom' as root. Trying to > do so has resulted in the following error message: > cd9660: Input/Output error > > This is the same cd drive I used to install (flawlessly) with. > Reading the mailing list archives, I see that the response from the > list to this error is to the effect of "You have a flaky cd drive". > > So, does this mean I have to replace the drive? Or is there a less > drastic solution? I can post dmesg output if that would help. > TIA, > > Woody > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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