From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 19 15:28:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B989F14F93 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:28:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04662; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:28:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Chris Singer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't seem to get the CD ROM mounted. In-Reply-To: <000201bea15a$899ed910$0ea78e8b@maverick.workfire.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 May 1999, Chris Singer wrote: > I have been having trouble with my version of FreeBSD 3.0, I can't seem to > mount the CD ROM drive. I first tried using "mount_cd9600 /dev/wcd0c > /mnt/cdrom" where wcd0c is the name of the cdrom device (this example is > assuming the cd is the master device on the secondary chain) and /mnt/cdrom > is the mount point you want to mount the cd at. The closest I have come to > mounting the CDROM was using "mount /dev/wcd0c /cdrom" and I recieved the > following message: > > mount: Input/Output Error > > I did notice that the CDROM spun the disk once before comming up with this > error. I have checked the /etc/fstab file to make sure the entry for the > CDROM is there. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem? Get a better CDROM. Your IDE CDROM is not responding correctly. Also check your IDE connections. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message