cd drive won't open

[Chris Hill]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, chip wrote:

> chip wrote:
>> Oddly enough, my cd drive will not open. Just yesterday I installed FBSD 
>> from cd and it was fine. Now it won't open. I haven't used it since 
>> installing FBSD.
>> I've tried umount /cdrom but get an error message
>> 
>> umount: /cdrom: not a file system root directory
>> 
>> Doesn't make any sense. I'm gonna shut down the machine and check the 
>> cables, just in case it came loose.
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> Well, after reseating the cables for the cd drive, and rebooting 
> twice, the drive finally opens. During bootup the system recognizes 
> the drive correctly and assigns it to acd0. But, the orange activity 
> light stays on continually (not flashing, just steady on) and 
> everything is running very slow now. It's definately related to the cd 
> drive, but what do I look for?

Maybe the drive is bad? Are you able to try a different drive?

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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