From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 7: 8: 7 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 602C314F93 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:08:05 -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 <19991223150804.DCGG9446.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com>; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:08:04 -0800 Message-ID: <38623ACE.6042C690@home.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:07:58 -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: Glen Foster , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: CDROM mount problems! References: <199912231414.JAA53041@rr.gfoster.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Glen Foster wrote: > > If your CD has a non-UFS file system on it, you have to tell mount > that this is the case, you also should specify that the media is > read-only, e.g.: > > # mount -t cd9660 -o rdonly /dev/acd0a /cdrom It worked! Strange ..without the -o rdonly flag it would not. Maybe I should just invest in some newer drives. I'm starting to suspect the drives may be too old. 3 out of 5 just worked in a 5 disk set. Leads me to believe the drive probably needs cleaning or replacing. > > for ISO 9660 CD-ROMs. > > If you put a line in /etc/fstab like: > > /dev/acd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > a simple: > > # mount /cdrom > > will mount your disk. > > Most data CD's have ISO file systems but I have occasionally seen UFS, > Mac, and FAT file systems. > > See the man pages for mount and mount_cd9660. > > >Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:59:38 -0500 > >From: Ted Sikora > > > >>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. > >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. > >It's time to fix this once and for all. Could it be my drives? > >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 > >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 http://powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message