From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 24 12:01:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA29536 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA29526; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com) Received: from bsampley (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.7/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id MAA18587; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:00:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:56:30 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@bsampley To: Mark Mayo cc: Joerg Wunsch , hackers@freebsd.org, questiosn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem mounting /cdrom w/ 2.2.5-R (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19971124091206.61860@vmunix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Thanks you everybody for your help. I think I just figured out the problem. I'm still at home now, but I had another employee load a cdrom in the drive so I could continue to attempt to diagnose the problem. This time mount /cdrom worked perfectly. Here's my assumption: I must have attempted to mount the cdrom too soon after loading the cdrom in the drive. It's an old 4X SCSI Toshiba CDROM drive. Instead of giving me a device not ready error to the console (BTW, I just reviewed /var/log/messages where it DID give a NOT READY error from /kernel) it gave a device not configured error message. I assumed this was a problem w/ 2.2.5-R. My assumption was wrong. I apologize for wasting everybody's time looking for an answer. If I would have just taken an extra minute to review /var/log/messages, there would have been no need to post my original message. Here's my solution: 1. Always review the logs before posting a question! 2. Slow down and be patient with older equipment. FYI: This server was built from 'spare parts' (486DX33, 16 meg) as a development platform for our web server (which also runs FBSD: www.savi.com) Thanks again and I truly apologize. - - burton - - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNHnb9nt2O8KJtMdBAQHFPwP8CvLPyXbuZytDnPtY4w3RB3eXOjIt5poL jJav1KCjAZ7Ct9rjIK57yIzMtzEhXin9F84l3qn0JxKwiRgrzUq3f2BWuuH0AKG+ 8kYKU2jsmay8Usm9sWHOKGf1lC11YfYM8WWtMNNhSCNchoPMZZGTn7WfVHpjexmm Cy/9KPeqK7w= =36R+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----