Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:50:58 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" <PETERS@staidan.qld.edu.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mounting a cd Message-ID: <5A965FA3B39@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>
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Hi all, I have a problem with my Aptiva 486DX4100 running 2.0.5. It has a single spin SCSI Toshiba cdrom on an adaptec 1542. The boot disk is an IDE. When it boots and mounts the cd at /cdrom it seems to create a file in the root directory called /cdrom with the following stats -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 May 1 20:00 cdrom mount says that the cd is mounted, ie /dev/cd0a on /cdrom (local,read-only) but I can't access the cd. Nor can I un mount it by typing 'unmount /cdrom' but 'unmount /dev/cd0a' works and suddenly /cdrom becomes a directory again! Everything was fine until I was copying a large archive to a floppy mounted at /mnt and (foolishly) typed 'ls /mnt' from another xterm. This seemed to create a deadlock on the floppy. The drive light went out, and neither the ls nor the cp would stop or go into the background. I quit from X & tried kill -9 to no avail. So in despair I sync-ed the disks & typed reboot. The machine waited on syncing disks for ages, so I reset it. What can I do to get my cd back? I await your wisdom. Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61 07 3379 9911, fax +61 07 3379 9432
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