cannot mount cdrom - not a newbie problem
Timothy Smith
timothy at open-networks.net
Wed Dec 15 16:31:34 PST 2004
ok i deleted the devices and ran sh MAKEDEV acd0 and still no joy
i'll pre-empt the "it must be hardware" by assuming you it's not, it's
does it on 2 different drives which work in other machines just fine.
one is an lg dvdrw the other a cdrw
my only possible thought now is it's something to do with dma
Timothy Smith wrote:
> Peter Harmsen wrote:
>
>> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>
>>> On 2004-12-15 09:43, Timothy Smith <timothy at open-networks.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> titan# mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mount
>>>> cd9660: /dev/cd0a: Invalid argument
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Try without *any* partition name:
>>>
>>> titan# mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mount
>>>
>>> Since /mount is a non-standard name, you _did_ check that /mount exists
>>> as a directory right?
>>>
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>> Have you checked the acl rights of /dev/acd0 ?
>> On my PC i just installed FreeBSD 5.3 Issuing chgrp <user> "/dev/acd0"
>> + chmod 770 "/dev/acd0" solved the problem.
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> i'm su'd to root..
> it's not a permission problem.
>
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