Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:47:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CDROM won't recognize disc Message-ID: <199810232247.PAA00449@hudsucker.gamespot.com>
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This is just about the weirdest problem I've ever encountered with FreeBSD. (Hardware: Toshiba SCSI CDROM plugged into an Adaptec 2940 card, Software: FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE) I was listening to an audio CD. I popped it out and inserted an ISO 9660 disc, intending to mount it. It wouldn't mount - kept saying "Device not configured." I tried putting the audio CD back in. It wasn't recognized. xmcd kept saying it was getting error 6 trying to open /dev/rcd0c. Every time I tried to access the CDROM drive, I'd get cd0(ahc0:4:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present or cd0(ahc0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:57,0 Unable to recover table-of-contents I tried the usual reboot, cold reboot, power off for 5 minutes and reboot stuff. I booted kernel.GENERIC, every other kernel I had around... No dice! At this point, I concluded it had to be a hardware error so I swapped the CDROM drive (fortunately there was a spare lying around). Surprise - it didn't fix it. Finally, I booted a DOS floppy that had the MSCDEX CDROM driver on it. That fixed it. What kind of software problem can get so entrenched in FreeBSD that even unplugging the computer doesn't cure it? And what's magic about the DOS ASPI-CD driver that it managed to dislodge it? perplexed, -jsd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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