From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 20:47:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD5216A420 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:47:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5324843D45 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:47:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=grokwell.org) by elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1F9q2a-0007PX-Ra for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:47:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:48:23 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060216144823.5a4e5aba@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: <63910.1140122325@monkeys.com> References: <63910.1140122325@monkeys.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcd01e2b234d305d645665447d2c0ff7ed350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Subject: Re: Mounting data DVDs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:47:53 -0000 On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:38:45 -0800 "Ronald F. Guilmette" 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 at ata1-master UDMA33 > GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc2d81e00 > cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > cd0: 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