From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 17:33:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D083316A4B3 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goliath.cnchost.com (goliath.cnchost.com [207.155.252.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13E043F3F for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:33:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwoodson@sricrm.com) Received: from squelcher.redlands.sricrm.com (bdsl.66.14.215.39.gte.net [66.14.215.39]) by goliath.cnchost.com id UAA02845; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:32:22 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.15] Errors-To: From: Mark Woodson Organization: Statistical Research, Inc. To: liuyang99@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:32:10 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <44smmymasv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309151732.22958.mwoodson@sricrm.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having trouble mounting cd rom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:33:31 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 September, Charlie wrote: > On Monday 15 September 2003 09:38 am, wrote: > > Charlie writes: > > > not sure why but when i run the command mount -t cd9660 -o ro > > > /dev/acd0c /cdrom it gives me this error message cd9660: > > > /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument > > > > Version of FreeBSD? > > Does /dev/acd0c exist? > > Is your CDROM drive an ATAPI device? > > Is the drive recognized at boot time? > > version 4 i believe, i bought it at compusa. > yes /dev/acd0c exists > not sure but i believe so > not sure how to check if it's reconized at boot time dmesg will tell you what's getting recognized at boot time. dmesg | grep cd That will strip out some of the irrelevant bits. You should see=20 something like: acd0: DVD-R at ata1-master PIO4 I find that invalid arguments frequently mean that the cd isn't a data=20 cd, but rather an audio cd, or there is no cd in the drive. It's a=20 data cd? You can skip the optional arguments and just: mount /cdrom =20 if the entry is in fstab (which default installs usually have). =2D -Mark =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ZloQF/yyV91po54RArrzAJ95zgfka1g+klxsrz0kJwY4w6SdUQCg9MYf xwJK8ebTj2lNcvuwuaCPXtQ=3D =3DSlhW =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----