From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 0:17:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8D437B407 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id JAA03337; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:26:29 +0200 Message-ID: <3B42C38D.1944A914@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 09:19:41 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin J. Kelly" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Recognizing and Mounting a Toshiba XM-3801B SCSI CD-ROM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kevin J. Kelly" schrieb: > [snip] > The Plextor CDR is /dev/cd1c; the Toshiba CD is /dev/cd0c. cd1 is properly > detected upon boot, but the following error always occurs for cd0: > cd0: Attempted to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not > present > when there is a valid media in the drive (I know it's a valid media because > I can read it when I mount it under cd1).[snip] Not all CD-ROM drives can read CD-Rs or CD-RWs like burners. Thus it's likely you try to read a CD-R with contrast values so low your CD-ROM drive cannot cope with. At least the error message tries to tell the facts. Please try again with a _clean_ CD-ROM (not -R, not -RW!). It that one can be mounted, your drive is either outdated or faulty. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message