Mounting problem

[taxman]

On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:50 pm, DayGlow Etsa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem mounting my cdrom drive(acd0a).
> In my /sbin/dmesg they state that my cdrom drive is acd0
> but I found that no such a device is in my /dev directory
> instead I found a acd0a and a acd0c. I can't get it to
> mount , if I use the followinf command:
> mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0a /cdrom
> they give me the reply
> cd9660:/dev/acd0a:Invalid argument

that's because you need to use acd0c as the argument.  The way FreeBSD sees 
ISO 9660 filesystems is that the c partition is the whole disk.  I don't know 
what a represents really.

> Although when I used cdcontrol and set my device to acd0a ,
> it read my cd and worked fine.

I'm not sure why that would work.

Tim