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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:56:28 -0400
From:      "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>
To:        "N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a poltergeist unmounting my cdrom
Message-ID:  <20020416145628.D3949@smnolde.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu>; from nthomas@cise.ufl.edu on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:17:30PM -0400
References:  <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA75D@stlmail.dra.com> <20020416171730.GA9167@cise.ufl.edu>

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N. Thomas(nthomas@cise.ufl.edu)@2002.04.16 13:17:30 +0000:
> * 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?
> 

I believe this would cause a problem.  I've always had the CDROM devices
act as a slave to the hard drive on the same IDE channel.  So try setting
the CDROM to slave and use the hard disk as the master and see if that
helps.

-- 
Scott Nolde
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