cd drive won't open

[chip]

Chris Hill wrote:
> 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?
>
> -- 
> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
> **                     [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
>
>
It finally did - after about 5 minutes of the system being apparently 
locked up, then a few more minutes of high activity slowing down the 
'puter. Then it finally started to respond properly and now works fine.