cdrom mount problem

Joshua Lokken joshua at twobirds.us
Thu Mar 18 09:00:14 PST 2004


* Martijn <freeBSD at parel.demon.nl> [2004-03-18 08:14]:
> Hi chris,
> 
> You first have to unmount the cdrom before you can mount
> a new cd, you can do that by typing:
> umount /cdrom
> 
> greets, Martijn
> 
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 16:35, Chris wrote:
> > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In summary: the only way to mount my cdrom after burning an ISO is to
> > reboot first.
> >
> >
> > Prior to 5.2.1-RC1, I was able to burn ISO imaged onto a CDRW using burncd,
> > then later mount /cdrom to access the files I burned. With RC1 and now with
> > 5.2.1-RELEASE, a strange thing happens:
> >
> > After a reboot, I can mount /cdrom and access files on the disc. But if I
> > re-burn the ISO file, then try to mount /cdrom, I get this:
> >
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error
> >
> > BUT... if I reboot THEN try to access that same disk, it works fine.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris


Please don't top-post.  I have used burncd since 4.5, and I have
never mounted a CD-R to burn it.  I'm sorry, I have no light to
shed on your problem, just wanted to keep your confusion to a
minimum.  Again, burning a CD-R under FreeBSD with burncd does
NOT involve mounting the drive first.

-- 
Joshua

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