Help mounting my CD rewritable drive and floppy drive in KDE desktop

[Chris]

Enrique Nieves Jr. wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> "Enrique Nieves Jr." <nieves_e at charter.net> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I tried mounting my CD rewritable disk from the KDE desktop by
>>> right-clicking and following the path - create new -> link to device
>>> ->
>>> CD writer device.  When I successfully place the CD Writer icon on the
>>> desktop and tried to mount, I got the following error message:
>>>
>>> Could not mount device
>>> The reported error was:
>>> mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0 input/output error
>>>
>>> I get the same thing when attempting to mount my floppy drive.
>>> Note:  I'm trying to read CDs with jpegs copied from a Windows XP box.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Can you do it from the command line?
>> Do you get the same errors?
>> Are the devices present?
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> I was able to mount the cd rom on the KDE desktop, and it work. It only
> needed to point to the /dev/acd0 in the Device tap of the icon. However,
> I can't do this with the floppy. I can't find where the mount point is
> on the Device tab. Also, I can't mount he floppy from the command line.
> When I use % mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, I get /floppy: no such directory. I
> tried the same command with /media instead of /floppy since that's where
> the hard drive and cd rom are, but I get the same message.
> 
> I can't seem to find the floppy device anywhere.
> 
> I appreciate your help with this.
> 
> Enrique
> 
> I'm using the KDE environment in a PCBSD distro of FreeBSD. The hard
> drive and the cdrom seem to be present in the /media directory. There's
> an fd folder with three files 0, 1, and 2 on the /dev directory, but
> these seem to be empty. Also there's an fd0 file in the /dev, but it's
> also empty.


>From a console and as root:
cd / && mkdir floppy



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Chris

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