From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 28 23:34:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA25104 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA25099 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA13729; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:37:59 -0700 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 23:37:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ben Wern cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE CDROM Failure? In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960427182007.2ecffd66@192.1.1.9> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Ben Wern wrote: > I have a NEC 4x IDE CDROM that I installed from, and it worked just fine and > dandy until I shutdown for an extended vacation. When I brought it back up > and tried to mount, I got this: > > "cd9660: /dev/wcd0c: Invalid argument" > > mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom also produced the same effect. Every third or > forth try, it quietly mounts (including a quick check of the disc). However, > when I cd to it, the dir is completely blank. Now, was it working AFTER the install? If this is the first time the installed system was booted, you'll have to rebuild the kernel with the ATAPI options detailed in LINT. > mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom told me that the device wasn't configured, and > when I tried to MAKEDEV, it told me "bad unit for disc in: cd0a" cd0 is the SCSI CDROM. Did you try ./MAKEDEV wcd0? :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major