From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 16:26:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F71037B401 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:26:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.102.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B72043F3F for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:26:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from 207.179.85.83 ([207.179.85.83]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:27:32 -0500 From: taxman To: "DayGlow Etsa" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:30:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304051930.11934.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Apr 2003 00:27:33.0202 (UTC) FILETIME=[50CC1B20:01C2FBD3] Subject: Re: Mounting problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 00:26:35 -0000 On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:50 pm, DayGlow Etsa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem mounting my cdrom drive(acd0a). > In my /sbin/dmesg they state that my cdrom drive is acd0 > but I found that no such a device is in my /dev directory > instead I found a acd0a and a acd0c. I can't get it to > mount , if I use the followinf command: > mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0a /cdrom > they give me the reply > cd9660:/dev/acd0a:Invalid argument that's because you need to use acd0c as the argument. The way FreeBSD sees ISO 9660 filesystems is that the c partition is the whole disk. I don't know what a represents really. > Although when I used cdcontrol and set my device to acd0a , > it read my cd and worked fine. I'm not sure why that would work. Tim