Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:15:25 -0400 From: "N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: a poltergeist unmounting my cdrom Message-ID: <20020416161525.GA8970@cise.ufl.edu>
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I have a Pentium 166 with two IDE hard drives and one IDE cdrom drive.
The cdrom is giving some problems:
1. I sometimes can't mount it, because I get a "cd9660: device busy"
error. This happens even though I've not done anything after the
machine has booted up except login and su to root.
2. If I wait a couple of minutes, or after trying to mount it about 27
times, it finally mounts, even though I didn't do anything different
the 28th time.
3. Worse than the mounting problem is this: After I've mounted it, I can
access /cdrom and use it properly. But sometimes everything sort of
quietly "unmounts".
mount(1) tells me that /cdrom is still mounted, but cd'ing into /cdrom
and running ls shows that it is not. I can unmount it, and after
messing with the problems described in #2, usually mount it again.
I think (but I am not sure) it is somehow being unmounted after a
period of no activity...
The other day I was installing some X packages, and I ran something like:
cd /cdrom/path/to/packages/x11;
pkg_add Xfoo.tgz foo1.tgz foo2.tgz foo3.tgz
...
and while one package was being added (it is slow on my machine) the cdrom
did this unmount thing and I got an error from pkg_add that it couldn't stat
/cdrom/path/to/packages/x11/foo1.tgz or something to that effect.
I'm almost certain it is a software issue because:
1. the cdrom is always recognized during the boot sequence
and
2. during installation, FreeBSD always recognizes and uses this cdrom
FYI, I'm running 4.4-RELEASE with the stock kernel and pretty much
everything on the system is untouched from the default (minimal) install.
--
N. Thomas
nthomas@cise.ufl.edu
Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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