From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 13:56:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10436 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10324 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23454; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:55:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Foster, Jim" cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: mount CD-ROM returns "input/output error" 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, 12 Oct 1998, Foster, Jim wrote: > I just put up a FreeBSD box this weekend (2.2.7-RELEASE). At this point, I > seem to have only one real problem. I can only access my ATAPI CD-ROM drive > under very certain circumstances. That doesn't surprise me. Does it involve sacrificing small woodland mammals? :-) > I have to cold-boot my computer with the CD-ROM that I want to look at in > the drive. Warm-boots don't make a difference. Warm-booting from Windows? > If I do the cold-boot, then I can mount and umount until my heart is > content--as long as I don't open the tray. As soon as I open the tray (the > volume unmounted, of course) and close it again, I can't mount the volume. > It does not matter if it is a different disc or the same one. It will not > mount until I cold-boot. This gets old real quick! Yuck. Are you getting a boot message like: atapi1.0: unknown phase This means your CDROM drive has issues, and I'd start shopping. > I have tried various forms of the mount command and the mount_cd9660 command > directly. With the mount command I just get an obscure "cd9660: /dev/wcd0a: > Input/output error" (I am doing this from memory). With the mount_cd9660 > command I get a different, but equally obscure command. Something about not > being able to find the first session. I then tried using '-s 0' with > mount_cd9660 since that is what '-v' reported, but it still does not work. Also check that the disc has fully spun up before trying to mount it; some drives won't let you do anything to them until they're done playing with the disc. 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