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Subject: Re: cannot mount cdrom - not a newbie problem
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Hi,

Have you tried:

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mntpnt

Seeing as how you said its a cdrw, I remember reading somewhere to 
use /dev/cd0 and not /dev/acd0

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 07:16 am, Timothy Smith wrote:
> i have a genuine problem here.
> i noticed my backup cdrw's had stopped working at some point. upon
> furthur investigation i find i cannot mount cd's full stop.
>
> titan# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /mount
> cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument
>
> the above command makes the drive light flicker for 3 seconds then the
> error.
>
> this is NOT a hardware problem. i get the exact same issue with my brand
> new dvd drive.
>
> here is what dmesg gas to say:
> acd0: DVD-R <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B> at ata1-slave WDMA2
> da0 at hpt3740 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <HPT3xx RAID 1 Array 3.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da0: 190782MB (390721957 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 24321C)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> cd0: <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B A301> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers
> cd0: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records]
>
> note this was working perfectly.
> i suspect that some how my ata device has gone "bad" some how.
>
> let me get the obvious replys out of the way:
> yes i have googled nothing i can find has even touched on a fix.
> yes there is a disc in the drive
> no it is not an audio disk.
> there is nothing else connected to the ide ports.
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