From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 9 20:22:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B902316A418 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:22:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B149013C4B8 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:22:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFABE46D25 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:23:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:21:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20071109201533.F29504@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: 7.0BETA2: Can't use with Parallels virtual CD-ROM drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:22:02 -0000 Dear all, I downloaded and attempted to install the 7.0-BETA2 ISO on a Parallels VM yesterday, and fairly rapidly ran into problems. I configured the ISO to appear as a CD-ROM drive in the VM, and booted: it happily got to sysinstall, but when I began the install, sysinstall was unable to mount the install CD. Booting to an existing 7-CURRENT VM, I found that it also was unable to mount the CD, but that I could install from a 6.3-BETA1 ISO without a problem. Testing from the command line, "mount -t cd9660" on 7.0 returns: mount: /dev/ac0 : Input/output error The same command on 6.3 successfully mounts the image. On the general theory of things, I tested mounting the 6 ISO on 7 (failed) and the 7 ISO on 6 (succeeded). In both 6 and 7, the virtual CD-ROM drive appears to probe fine: acd0: DVDROM at ata0-slave PIO4 In both cases, the drive continues to show up fine in atacontrol: Slave: acd0 ATA/ATAPI revision 4 I tried reconfiguring Parallels to move the ISO to the second virtual ATA controller and that didn't make a difference either. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this? It sounds like it may be a change in the ATA driver? Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge