From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 14:35:12 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 7102E37B404 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newtonsecond.com (adsl-63-207-117-158.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.117.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB32F43FEC for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tristan11@mindspring.com) Received: from [12.43.53.1] (account michelle HELO mindspring.com) by newtonsecond.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 581631 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:35:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:35:12 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Michelle Weeks To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20030418212630.GA64440@mail.hitmedia.com> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Subject: cdrom - device not configured error 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: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 21:35:12 -0000 i'm trying to mount /dev/acd0c and i keep getting the error "device not configured". the freebsd handbook states that either the drive does not think there is a cd in the tray or the machine can't see the drive on the bus. i've put the cd in the tray several times, tried multiple cds that can be read by another freebsd machine and still the error "device not configured". this is a production server and i would like to avoid bringing the server down if at all possible. is there a way to tell if the machine can see the cdrom drive on the bus? or is there something else that could be causing this behavior? thanks in advance for any help or advice. -michelle