From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 10 19:17:45 2005 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 9D3BD16A41F for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:17:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3378D43D60 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:17:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD0964B1; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:17:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39480-07; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:17:20 -0600 (CST) Received: by makeworld.com (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 9530064B0; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:17:20 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE7464AA; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:17:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <439B29EB.4080903@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:18:03 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Enrique Nieves Jr." References: <4399425E.4000908@charter.net> <444q5itiu2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <439B5341.7090402@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <439B5341.7090402@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.3.3 (20050822) at makeworld.com - FreeBSD:The Power To Serve Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help mounting my CD rewritable drive and floppy drive in KDE desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: RacerX@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:17:45 -0000 Enrique Nieves Jr. wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> "Enrique Nieves Jr." writes: >> >> >> >>> I tried mounting my CD rewritable disk from the KDE desktop by >>> right-clicking and following the path - create new -> link to device >>> -> >>> CD writer device. When I successfully place the CD Writer icon on the >>> desktop and tried to mount, I got the following error message: >>> >>> Could not mount device >>> The reported error was: >>> mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0 input/output error >>> >>> I get the same thing when attempting to mount my floppy drive. >>> Note: I'm trying to read CDs with jpegs copied from a Windows XP box. >>> >> >> >> Can you do it from the command line? >> Do you get the same errors? >> Are the devices present? >> >> >> >> > I was able to mount the cd rom on the KDE desktop, and it work. It only > needed to point to the /dev/acd0 in the Device tap of the icon. However, > I can't do this with the floppy. I can't find where the mount point is > on the Device tab. Also, I can't mount he floppy from the command line. > When I use % mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, I get /floppy: no such directory. I > tried the same command with /media instead of /floppy since that's where > the hard drive and cd rom are, but I get the same message. > > I can't seem to find the floppy device anywhere. > > I appreciate your help with this. > > Enrique > > I'm using the KDE environment in a PCBSD distro of FreeBSD. The hard > drive and the cdrom seem to be present in the /media directory. There's > an fd folder with three files 0, 1, and 2 on the /dev directory, but > these seem to be empty. Also there's an fd0 file in the /dev, but it's > also empty. >From a console and as root: cd / && mkdir floppy -- Best regards, Chris Unless you intend to kill him immediately; never kick a man in the balls, not even symbolically or perhaps especially not symbolically.