From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 7:53:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EA01507A for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:53:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tsikora@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991223155332.DMVQ9446.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com> for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:53:32 -0800 Message-ID: <38624577.4E3EDC8A@home.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:53:27 -0500 From: Ted Sikora Reply-To: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Organization: Jtl Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.3.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: CDROM mount problems! References: <199912231414.JAA53041@rr.gfoster.com> <38623ACE.6042C690@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Sikora wrote: > > Glen Foster wrote: > > > > If your CD has a non-UFS file system on it, you have to tell mount > > that this is the case, you also should specify that the media is > > read-only, e.g.: > > > > # mount -t cd9660 -o rdonly /dev/acd0a /cdrom > It worked! Strange ..without the -o rdonly flag it would not. Maybe I > should just invest in some newer drives. I'm starting to suspect the > drives may be too old. 3 out of 5 just worked in a 5 disk set. Leads me > to believe the drive probably needs cleaning or replacing. > > > Under Linux however the cdroms work perfectly always have. The same machine booted to Slackware the same disks all mount perfectly. This is what leads me to believe there has been a problem in FreeBSD's code. > > for ISO 9660 CD-ROMs. > > > > If you put a line in /etc/fstab like: > > > > /dev/acd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > > > a simple: > > > > # mount /cdrom > > > > will mount your disk. > > > > Most data CD's have ISO file systems but I have occasionally seen UFS, > > Mac, and FAT file systems. > > > > See the man pages for mount and mount_cd9660. > > > > >Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:59:38 -0500 > > >From: Ted Sikora > > > -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com http://powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message