problems with cd/dvd-device

Linnea Forslund supermoccine at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 06:49:00 PDT 2005


On 10/25/05, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote:
> > On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:04:25 +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote:
> > > > I know, I know. I ask a lot of questions right now, but it's just
> > > > because I've waited until it's very acute until I got myself to start
> > > > fixing these things.
> > > >
> > > > So, I can't seem to find my cd/dvd-device. What do I do?
> > >
> > > That depends on what you've already done.  What did you do?
> > >
> > > Greg
> >
> > Well, what "I" did originally I didn't do. Someone else did and I feel
> > a bit handicapped not knowing what's reallt been done and not. Now I
> > tried som commands in the newbie guide like these:
> >
> > supermoccine# mount /cdrom
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
> > supermoccine# /sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom
> > mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a: No such file or directory
>
> That should be /dev/acd0 or /dev/cd0, not /dev/cd0a.
>
> Check that CD devices are actually there, with "ls /dev/*cd*". On my
> system this returns: "/dev/cd0 /dev/cd1" but that's because I use SCSI
> emulation. A system with a GENERIC kernel would probably show /dev/acd0.

A whole bunch shows up:

> ls /dev/*cd*
/dev/acd0       /dev/acd0t03    /dev/acd0t06    /dev/acd0t09    /dev/acd0t12
/dev/acd0t01    /dev/acd0t04    /dev/acd0t07    /dev/acd0t10    /dev/acd0t13
/dev/acd0t02    /dev/acd0t05    /dev/acd0t08    /dev/acd0t11



>
> > And I tried inserting a cd with musicfiles and find it from xmms, but
> > there was nothing in /cdrom.
>
> Playing music is very different from mounting, so that's perfectly normal.
>

So what should I do to play musicfiles from cd? .mp3, .sid and so on..


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