Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 09:19:41 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: "Kevin J. Kelly" <kjkelly@kjkelly.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Recognizing and Mounting a Toshiba XM-3801B SCSI CD-ROM Message-ID: <3B42C38D.1944A914@i-clue.de> References: <LOBBJJLFCNECDKPNPFBPCENAFKAA.kjkelly@kjkelly.com>
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"Kevin J. Kelly" schrieb: > [snip] > The Plextor CDR is /dev/cd1c; the Toshiba CD is /dev/cd0c. cd1 is properly > detected upon boot, but the following error always occurs for cd0: > cd0: Attempted to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not > present > when there is a valid media in the drive (I know it's a valid media because > I can read it when I mount it under cd1).[snip] Not all CD-ROM drives can read CD-Rs or CD-RWs like burners. Thus it's likely you try to read a CD-R with contrast values so low your CD-ROM drive cannot cope with. At least the error message tries to tell the facts. Please try again with a _clean_ CD-ROM (not -R, not -RW!). It that one can be mounted, your drive is either outdated or faulty. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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