From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 10:17:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cise.ufl.edu (beach.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C55437B404 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shine.cise.ufl.edu (shine.cise.ufl.edu [128.227.205.227]) by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BA96C17 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:17:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nthomas@localhost) by shine.cise.ufl.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id NAA09512 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:17:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:17:30 -0400 From: "N. Thomas" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a poltergeist unmounting my cdrom Message-ID: <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Eric Six [2002-04-16 12:11:13 -0500]: > > > > 3. Worse than the mounting problem is this: After I've mounted it, I can > > access /cdrom and use it properly. But sometimes everything sort of > > quietly "unmounts". > > > > mount(1) tells me that /cdrom is still mounted, but cd'ing into > > /cdrom and running ls shows that it is not. I can unmount it, and > > after messing with the problems described in #2, usually mount it > > again. > > This almost sounds to me like your having some hardware issues.. possibly > the cdrom or maybe the controller that the cdrom is on. If you do not have > access to another cdrom, try moving the cd to the other ide controller. Hmm...I forgot to mention this, but for reasons I cannot recall at the moment, I placed the second hard drive as a slave on the same IDE controller as the cdrom. Would this cause problems? Why? -- N. Thomas nthomas@cise.ufl.edu Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message