From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 6:20:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C21155AD for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:19:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tsikora@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991223141956.CPZY9446.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com>; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:19:56 -0800 Message-ID: <38622F86.4FEB5F4D@home.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:19:50 -0500 From: Ted Sikora Reply-To: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Organization: Jtl Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nadav Eiron Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: CDROM mount problems! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nadav Eiron wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Ted Sikora wrote: > > > >From day one (several years now) I have always had trouble with cdroms > > in FreeBSD. Everytime I try to mount one(at least 95% of the time) they > > fail to mount. For instance I have the new Corel Linux(eyuk!) in the > > drive now a # mount /dev/acd0a /cdrom yields a mount: /dev/acd0a on > > /cdrom: incorrect super block error. > > This is better suited to -questions (redirected). I'll try there, thanks. > > > No matter what machine I use it's the same. I have the cdrom set up the > > same as the GENERIC conf script. Have I missed something. > > Yes! The type of the filesystem on the CDROM! CDROMs are usually formatted > in ISO-9660. You asked to mount a ufs filesystem. The error you got simply > indicates that mount didn't find a ufs system on the media. No wander. Try > adding -t cd9660 to the mount command: > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom Same error! > > > It's time to fix this once and for all. Could it be my drives? > > Indeed. To fix this once and for all, add an appropriate line to > /etc/fstab. Then mount will know the type of the filesystem it should > expect automagicaly. man 5 fstab. I have: /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > There both old 2x and 5x drives. This ones a Creative CD620E the other > > one a Sony CDU-55. I've been through the handbook and faq and have > > Well, this is a FAQ! A search for your error message on www.freebsd.org > turned out this page: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html I'll look there. > > > pretty much given up on it. I just mount a cdrom via the network on a > > different machine when I need it. > > -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message