From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 23:02:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA17101 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:02:23 -0700 Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA17059 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:00:43 -0700 Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA00220 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:45:43 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 20 Oct 95 15:51:52 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 20 Oct 95 15:51:00 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:50:58 -1000 Subject: mounting a cd Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-ID: <5A965FA3B39@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I have a problem with my Aptiva 486DX4100 running 2.0.5. It has a single spin SCSI Toshiba cdrom on an adaptec 1542. The boot disk is an IDE. When it boots and mounts the cd at /cdrom it seems to create a file in the root directory called /cdrom with the following stats -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 May 1 20:00 cdrom mount says that the cd is mounted, ie /dev/cd0a on /cdrom (local,read-only) but I can't access the cd. Nor can I un mount it by typing 'unmount /cdrom' but 'unmount /dev/cd0a' works and suddenly /cdrom becomes a directory again! Everything was fine until I was copying a large archive to a floppy mounted at /mnt and (foolishly) typed 'ls /mnt' from another xterm. This seemed to create a deadlock on the floppy. The drive light went out, and neither the ls nor the cp would stop or go into the background. I quit from X & tried kill -9 to no avail. So in despair I sync-ed the disks & typed reboot. The machine waited on syncing disks for ages, so I reset it. What can I do to get my cd back? I await your wisdom. Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61 07 3379 9911, fax +61 07 3379 9432