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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: cdroms on 386bsd
Message-ID: <ByLI5p.81p@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 19:29:48 GMT
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	I have the Simtel-20, usenet sources, GNU, X11, etc CD-ROMS
	that Walnut Creek put out.  At first, to access them from my
	svr4 UNIX, I ran SOSS on a spare pc, and NFS mounted the CDROM
	under UNIX.  Very slow, and prone to crashing.  I am now running
	OS/2  with NFS and mounting them that way.  OS/2's NFS makes a
	1200 baud modem seem fast.  I am also running 386bsd on another
	pc.  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.  If I try to mount it via mount -t isofs /dev/as0a
	it says mount: input/output error.  I cannot find any info in
	the man pages, or browsing thru the source.
	Can an ISO CDROM be mounted under 386bsd?  If so, what magik is
	involved?
	Thanks for any info.
-- 
	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