From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 11:37: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623EB15000 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA72188; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:36:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Woody Carey Cc: "'James R. Shrenk'" , Joe Royce , Mark Thomas , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace? In-Reply-To: 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, 21 Jun 1999, Woody Carey wrote: > The below fstab entry you sent was what was in /etc/fstab, thanks. > > 'mount /cdrom' works on this machine *only if* a cd is in the drive > during boot up. I have not tested this extensively. Please do test this, I'd be interested in seeing it. It sounds like your CDROM drive doesn't probe if there's no CD present, apparently. > Since this was not IIRC the behavior of my 2.2.5-RELEASE box (SCSI > drives), this begs the question: Is this the _correct_ behavior? I > suspect I have more to fix... No, it's not correct. :-) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message