From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 4:25:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pmpro.com (halberd.pmpro.com [207.238.28.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 345A11521C for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 04:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@pmpro.com) Received: from carrot (carrot.pmpro.com [192.168.201.231]) by pmpro.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA20937; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:25:05 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990618072624.010ce2c0@pop.pmpro.com> X-Sender: thomas@pop.pmpro.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:26:24 -0400 To: Woody Carey , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:42 AM 6/17/99 -0700, Woody Carey wrote: >On my new (last night) FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE box >[PII-233x2, 128 Mb RAM, 4G IDE HD, IDE (ATAPI) CD] >I have been unable to 'mount /cdrom' as root. Trying to >do so has resulted in the following error message: >cd9660: Input/Output error > >This is the same cd drive I used to install (flawlessly) with. >Reading the mailing list archives, I see that the response from the >list to this error is to the effect of "You have a flaky cd drive". > >So, does this mean I have to replace the drive? Or is there a less >drastic solution? I can post dmesg output if that would help. Two thoughts: Did you configure and install a custom kernel without 9660 support? Do you actually have a disc in the drive? Mark --- Mark Thomas -- thomas@pmpro.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message