From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 2: 5: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tibor.org (cable-117-5-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.5.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A6C37B74C for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 02:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tibor@tibor.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tibor.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EA823805 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 01:04:58 -0800 (AKDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 01:04:57 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mike Tibor To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting SCSI cdrom on 4.0-R Alpha In-Reply-To: <20000515104702.A777@student.csd.uu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 May 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:32:48AM -0800, Mike Tibor wrote: > > I have no idea if my syntax is correct (I come from the Linux world, and > > the docs at www.freebsd.org and the man pages don't give any examples), > > but can anyone tell me how to mount a scsi cdrom? > > > > When I try: > > > > # mount -t cd9660 /dev/rscd0c /mnt/cdrom > > > > I get "cd9660: Operation not permitted". /mnt/cdrom exists, /dev/rscd0c > > exists, and there is a cdrom in the drive. > > Try using /dev/cd0c instead of /dev/rscd0c. > (This is the correct device for a SCSI CROM according to /dev/MAKEDEV) Hmmm... This is really a pain in the butt. If the appropriate people are monitoring this list, would it be possible to update the handbook web pages as well as the man pages? There are no examples at all in the man pages, and searching the list archives yields a huge number of questions in this area but few answers. Mike -- Mike Tibor Univ. of Alaska Anchorage (907) 786-1001 voice Network Technician Consortium Library (907) 786-6050 fax tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/~tibor/ http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/~tibor/pgpkey for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message