problems with cd/dvd-device

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:19:04 +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote:
> On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:04:25 +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote:
>>> I know, I know. I ask a lot of questions right now, but it's just
>>> because I've waited until it's very acute until I got myself to start
>>> fixing these things.
>>>
>>> So, I can't seem to find my cd/dvd-device. What do I do?
>>
>> That depends on what you've already done.  What did you do?
>
> Well, what "I" did originally I didn't do. Someone else did and I
> feel a bit handicapped not knowing what's reallt been done and
> not. Now I tried som commands in the newbie guide like these:
>
> supermoccine# mount /cdrom
> cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
> supermoccine# /sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom
> mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a: No such file or directory
> supermoccine#

OK, that's part of what I wanted to know.  Now what version of FreeBSD
are you running?  What does this say?

  # dmesg | grep cd0

> And I tried inserting a cd with musicfiles and find it from xmms,
> but there was nothing in /cdrom.

No, there wouldn't be.  /cdrom is a directory, not a CD.  You can
mount file systems on it, but you'll need other software to play it.
I'll leave it to others to suggest their favourites.

Greg
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