From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 14:19:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C394B37B479 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from best.com (dynamic60.pm03.mv.best.com [209.24.240.188]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id OAA09388 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39ECC1ED.1B870C78@best.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:17:33 -0700 From: Guy Williams X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: CDROM and Floppies inop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear friends, I hope you can help. This is my first UNIX-like system setup. FreeBSD 4.1 Release FreeBSD 4.1-Release#0:friJUL 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000 jkh@ref4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/generic:386 system: Iwill P55AV Ultra SCSI Motherboard Pentium 200 MHz MMX sound card (probed as unknown), std. IDE/ESDI HDC (probed as unknown), Voodoo3, CDROM E-IDE ISO 9660, generic 3.5 and 5.25 floppies, 2 hard drives. Pri and sec. IDE ctlrs., PS/2 mouse No SCSI devices and the SCSI cntls are disabled on the board setup probes: indicate some invalid I/O ports associated with adv1. No conf in basic view setup. probes: WARNING "fd" is usurping "dd"'s cdevsw[] WARNING "fd" is usurping 'dd"'s bmaj I get a prompt, I can log on, move around, run vi, the screen saver works and the mouse works. I loaded the system from the CD drive using boot disks. PROBLEM: The floppies do not show up in /etc/fstab; the CDROM is there but does not mount on startup. If I try to mount the the CDROM I get: CD9660 device busy If I try to mount the floppies I get: fd0c hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (nostatus) fd1c hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (nostatus) Thanks for you help. Guy -- Guy Williams 1220 Carmel Terrace Los Altos, CA 94024 (650)967-0230 guywill@best.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message