Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:49:11 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line? Message-ID: <20051006144641.R1341@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <43451088.503@axis.nl> References: <4a40ab2e0a11940a5340a.20051005200648.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <57416b300510052221h6eb2cf0bma7b74d37da89287b@mail.gmail.com> <43451088.503@axis.nl>
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: > Hi, > > This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in > one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough > results for my likings. :) > > The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new machine > (though the question is most likely not specific to the AMD64 version, I > guess), and upon installation time the machine had a DVD-ROM / CD-RW drive. > Yesterday I received a new drive, being a DVD-RW drive, and I replaced the > previous one with the new one. O.k., no problem so far, and the BIOS seems to > properly identify the drive. > > When booting the machine, the drive is -I think- identified as "DVDW" as > /dev/acd0, and the mountpoint it (re!)uses is /cdrom. > > Now, this is where the issue lies. When putting a CD-ROM in the drive, and > trying to access it through the /cdrom mountpoint I get an empty directory > listing (not correct) and when manually trying to do the following: > mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom Try mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom Regards, Uli. ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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