Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:48:23 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting data DVDs? Message-ID: <20060216144823.5a4e5aba@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: <63910.1140122325@monkeys.com> References: <63910.1140122325@monkeys.com>
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:38:45 -0800 "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> wrote: > > I know that I'm very late to the party, but I just recently bought and > installed my first ever DVD burner. > > The burner is installed on a system that I have set up to dual boot > to either FreeBSD 5.2.1 (yea, I know, that's ancient) or else to > Windoze ME. > > So anyway, yesterday I followed all of the instructions located at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html > > in order to create and install a fresh kernel that would have all of > the required stuff in it to be able to burn data DVDs. > > I then burned my first ever data DVD... made from some data I had > that I wanted to make a backup of. > > All went smoothly. So far, so good. > > The tricky part came when I then went to _mount_ my freshly burned DVD > onto FreeBSD. (I wanted to do this just in order to verify that the > data had in fact successfully been burned onto the DVD.) > > Unfortunately, try as I might, I couldn't fingure out how to just > simply mount the burned DVD onto the FreeBSD system. I tried both: > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt > > which yielded only the error message: > > cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured > > and I also tried: > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt > > which yielded the error: > > cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error > > OK, so what am I doing wrong? > > Note that I have attached the relevant portion of my dmesg output at > the end of this message... just in case that might be useful in > diagnosing this problem. > > The REALLY funny thing about all this is that I am 100% sure that the > DVD in question *did* get properly burned, because I can reboot this > same system into Windows ME, and then, Windows ME has no trouble at > all seeing either the DVD or all of the files that I burned onto it. > > So basically, I can _burn_ a DVD under FreeBSD... I just can't figure > out how to use it on FreeBSD, once it has been successfully burned. > > Sound I just ungrade to something a bit fresher than 5.2.1, or does > that make any difference at all? > > Any help appreciated. > > > > > dmesg stuff: > ========================================================================== > ... > ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > acd0: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S> at ata1-master UDMA33 > GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc2d81e00 > cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > cd0: <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S JS05> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device > cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers > cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not > present _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Can you mount CD's? If so, pretend it's a CD. If you have an entry in /etc/fstab to mount a CD to /cdrom, then execute: mount /cdrom Best of luck, Andrew
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