From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 9:18:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8030414BDA for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from team7.cba (team7.cba [144.167.120.24]) by team7.cba (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02222; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:17:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:17:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Royce X-Sender: joe@team7.cba To: Woody Carey Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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