On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:49 am, Haulmark, Chris wrote: > Someone broke the silence: > > i have a genuine problem here. > > i noticed my backup cdrw's had stopped working at some point. upon > > furthur investigation i find i cannot mount cd's full stop. > > > > titan# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /mount > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument > > Is this a typo of acd0c with the c?
Prior to RELEASE 5.x default CD devices carried a 'partition' suffix of 'a' or 'c' but as of 4.x acd0a and acd0c were/are equivalent and correspond (I believe) to acd0 in 5.x. Man pages and other documentation in 4.x is not entirely consistent sometimes using /dev/acd0 and elsewhere /dev/acd0c. Malcolm > > Chris > > > the above command makes the drive light flicker for 3 seconds > > then the > > error. > > > > this is NOT a hardware problem. i get the exact same issue > > with my brand > > new dvd drive. > > > > here is what dmesg gas to say: > > acd0: DVD-R <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B> at ata1-slave WDMA2 > > da0 at hpt3740 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > da0: <HPT3xx RAID 1 Array 3.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > > da0: 190782MB (390721957 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 24321C) > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > > cd0: <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B A301> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device > > cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records] > > > > note this was working perfectly. > > i suspect that some how my ata device has gone "bad" some how. > > > > let me get the obvious replys out of the way: > > yes i have googled nothing i can find has even touched on a fix. > > yes there is a disc in the drive > > no it is not an audio disk. > > there is nothing else connected to the ide ports. > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
