Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:17:30 -0400 From: "N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a poltergeist unmounting my cdrom Message-ID: <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA75D@stlmail.dra.com> References: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA75D@stlmail.dra.com>
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* Eric Six <erics@sirsi.com> [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
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