Mounting data DVDs?

[Björn König]

Ronald F. Guilmette schrieb:

> I know that I'm very late to the party, but I just recently bought and
> installed my first ever DVD burner.
> 
> The burner is installed on a system that I have set up to dual boot
> to either FreeBSD 5.2.1 (yea, I know, that's ancient) or else to
> Windoze ME.
> 
> So anyway, yesterday I followed all of the instructions located at:
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html
> 
> in order to create and install a fresh kernel that would have all of the
> required stuff in it to be able to burn data DVDs.
> 
> I then burned my first ever data DVD... made from some data I had that I
> wanted to make a backup of.
> 
> All went smoothly.  So far, so good.
> 
> The tricky part came when I then went to _mount_ my freshly burned DVD
> onto FreeBSD.  (I wanted to do this just in order to verify that the
> data had in fact successfully been burned onto the DVD.)
> 
> Unfortunately, try as I might, I couldn't fingure out how to just simply
> mount the burned DVD onto the FreeBSD system.  I tried both:
> 
>     mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt
> 
> which yielded only the error message:
> 
>     cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured
> 
> and I also tried:
> 
>     mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt
> 
> which yielded the error:
> 
>     cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error
> 
> OK, so what am I doing wrong?
> [...]

Maybe /var/log/messages gives you a hint what's happening.

Björn