From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 07:51:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA13042 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:51:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA13028 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:51:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa01428; 20 Nov 97 10:49 EST Received: from stretch.cs.virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA09401; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:49:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from atf3r@localhost) by stretch.cs.virginia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA24898; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:49:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:49:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Jacques Hugo cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting a goddamn cd!! In-Reply-To: <34744030.2781E494@wired.ctech.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Jacques Hugo wrote: > Hi there > > Short and sweet: > > dmesg: > (ahc0:5:0): "PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-20TS 1.00" type 5 removable SCSI 2 > cd0(ahc0:5:0): CD-ROM can't get the size > > Q: What does "CD-ROM can't get the size" mean? > > $bash#mount -r /dev/cd0c /mnt > /dev/cd0c on /mnt: Incorrect super block. > > $bash#mount -r /dev/cd0a /mnt > /dev/cd0a on /mnt: Incorrect super block. Hi, Either device will work. The problem is you need to tell it what kind of filesystem is on the device. You can either add the -t flag or use the specialized evxternal mount command that is indirectly invoked. Try: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom or mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom If you expect to be mounting different CD's regularly, you might want to consider adding an entry to your fstab usign the noauto option. Here's what I have in mine: /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 This allows me to use just "mount /cdrom", because the other options are found in the fstab file. cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/