Fwd: problems with cd/dvd-device

Linnea Forslund supermoccine at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 06:52:12 PDT 2005


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From: Linnea Forslund <supermoccine at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: problems with cd/dvd-device
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org>


On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:19:04 +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?
> >
> > 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
> > supermoccine#
>
> OK, that's part of what I wanted to know.  Now what version of FreeBSD
> are you running?

I don't know. I suppose there are ways to check this?


What does this say?
>
>   # dmesg | grep cd0

> dmesg | grep cd0
acd0: DVDR <NEC DVD RW ND-3520A/1.04> at ata0-master UDMA33


>
> > And I tried inserting a cd with musicfiles and find it from xmms,
> > but there was nothing in /cdrom.
>
> No, there wouldn't be.  /cdrom is a directory, not a CD.  You can
> mount file systems on it, but you'll need other software to play it.
> I'll leave it to others to suggest their favourites.
>
> Greg
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