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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:33:35 +1100
From:      Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To:        scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help
Message-ID:  <20040121223335.GA2970@madras.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040121172923.38750.qmail@web41315.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEIDFFAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> <20040121172923.38750.qmail@web41315.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0800, scott renna wrote:
> mount /cdrom yields:
> 
> cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
> 
> /etc/fstab is set up as such:
> 
> /dev/acd0    /cdrom      cd9660    ro,noauto    0 0

Hope you're not trying to mount an audio CD. Otherwise, try what's
below. It must say it's a cd-rom file system. If not, I guess the
cd is faulty.

head -c 65536 /dev/acd0 > a.txt && file a.txt

(if acd0 does not work, try acd0t01)

hth
Gautam



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