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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: cdroms on 386bsd
Message-ID: <ByLJwt.BIM@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
References: <ByLI5p.81p@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 20:07:40 GMT
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In article <ByLI5p.81p@chinet.chi.il.us> I  write:
>
>	However, I cannot seem to mount, cat, dd, or anything
>	a cdrom on it.  I have a 1542b with a CHINON cdrom unit.  386bsd
>	recognizes as0 when it boots.  If I try to dd if=/dev/wd0a,
>	it tells me that as0 has a CHINON cdrom attached as a read only
>	disk, then returns.  

	Nemmine.  A find -exec grep -i isofs of the source tree
	pointed me to the mount_isofs command (not normaly installed).
	That, and mounting /dev/as0d instead of as0a did the trick.
	Bout 100 times faster than mounting under OS/2 and days faster
	than SOSS.  Gonna stick 386bsd on a spare 386sx with a small
	IDE drive (translation geometry? Ha!  no such problems) and
	the SCSI CDROM.  Now will be a permanent part of chinet.
	Ghod, but puters are fun!  Bring on the 386bsd source on ROM!

-- 
	I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us