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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 07:19:50 EST
From:      DrdeHaerne@aol.com
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Very anoying CDROM mounting issue
Message-ID:  <3de8b06d.36ab0fe6@aol.com>

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Hi,

I just finished installing freebsd 2.2.7 (walnut creek cds) from the CDROM
drive, and it worked fine.

Now when I try to mount my cdrom (a generic IDE cdrom) I always get the same
error. Here is an extract of one of my attempts (and failure):

myname# /sbin/mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom
cd9660: /dev/wcd0c: Device not configured

I think I've narrowed down the problem to the fact that I do not see wcd0
being probed at bootup.

Although in my custome kernel, I do have these two lines in my config file:

===================
options                 ATAPI
device                   wcd0
===================

I did do a /dev/MAKEDEV wcd0 (a suggestion often made in the freebsd.org
archives)

Also If I did a /dev/MAKEDEV wcd01, then in my /cdrom directory, I would find:
rw*  (* being every hdd slice <g> another adive often found in the freebsd.org
archives) 

So after rebooting and trying the above, it still would not help.

The cdrom is set correctly (jumperwise, and so on). I have been working on
this all night and I am simply clueless.

So like I said above, it must be a problem at the bootup.. but why would my
kernel not probe the cdrom, even though it was set up right in the config
file? So then I look at my floppy drive, which IS probed during bootup, but I
do not find fdc0 in /dev.

So then I tried doing /dev/MAKEDEV fdc0, and I get this error:
bad unit for disk in: fdc0

If that would of worked I was going to set it accordingly in my /etc/fstab
(even though I am unsure of the exact syntax) ... yet if the device is probed,
yet I try to add it to /dev  and it still does not work!?!

Any and all help would be really appreciated

Sincerely,
A new and frustrated user



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