Fwd: problems with cd/dvd-device

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Tue Oct 25 07:02:15 PDT 2005


On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:52:08PM +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote:
> 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?

uname -r

> What does this say?
> >
> >   # dmesg | grep cd0
> 
> > dmesg | grep cd0
> acd0: DVDR <NEC DVD RW ND-3520A/1.04> at ata0-master UDMA33

Well, at least your DVD rewriter is recognized.

Roland
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