Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:18:03 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: "Enrique Nieves Jr." <nieves_e@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help mounting my CD rewritable drive and floppy drive in KDE desktop Message-ID: <439B29EB.4080903@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <439B5341.7090402@charter.net> References: <4399425E.4000908@charter.net> <444q5itiu2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <439B5341.7090402@charter.net>
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Enrique Nieves Jr. wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> "Enrique Nieves Jr." <nieves_e@charter.net> writes: >> >> >> >>> I tried mounting my CD rewritable disk from the KDE desktop by >>> right-clicking and following the path - create new -> link to device >>> -> >>> CD writer device. When I successfully place the CD Writer icon on the >>> desktop and tried to mount, I got the following error message: >>> >>> Could not mount device >>> The reported error was: >>> mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0 input/output error >>> >>> I get the same thing when attempting to mount my floppy drive. >>> Note: I'm trying to read CDs with jpegs copied from a Windows XP box. >>> >> >> >> Can you do it from the command line? >> Do you get the same errors? >> Are the devices present? >> >> >> >> > I was able to mount the cd rom on the KDE desktop, and it work. It only > needed to point to the /dev/acd0 in the Device tap of the icon. However, > I can't do this with the floppy. I can't find where the mount point is > on the Device tab. Also, I can't mount he floppy from the command line. > When I use % mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, I get /floppy: no such directory. I > tried the same command with /media instead of /floppy since that's where > the hard drive and cd rom are, but I get the same message. > > I can't seem to find the floppy device anywhere. > > I appreciate your help with this. > > Enrique > > I'm using the KDE environment in a PCBSD distro of FreeBSD. The hard > drive and the cdrom seem to be present in the /media directory. There's > an fd folder with three files 0, 1, and 2 on the /dev directory, but > these seem to be empty. Also there's an fd0 file in the /dev, but it's > also empty. >From a console and as root: cd / && mkdir floppy -- Best regards, Chris Unless you intend to kill him immediately; never kick a man in the balls, not even symbolically or perhaps especially not symbolically.
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