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#! rnews 2187 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.ctc.edu!ctcadmin@ctc.edu From: "Rhett Karr" <rhettk@bbcc.ctc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM Error: "Device not configured" Date: 13 May 1997 17:25:10 GMT Organization: Washington Community and Technical Colleges Lines: 39 Message-ID: <01bc5fc2$5683bea0$19b42786@rhett1.bbcc.ctc.edu> References: <336A68C8.1CC6@bmc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.39.180.25 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40825 I had a similar problem with my ATAPI CD-ROM. There is a new entry in the new LINT file for 2.2.1 that specifies the CD-ROM driver to be STATIC, not a KLM (Kernel Loadable Module). I am not sure if this will apply to your SCSI drive, but you can look throught the new LINT file for something similar and give it a try. Paul Harder <paul_harder@bmc.com> wrote in article <336A68C8.1CC6@bmc.com>... > I have a collection of hardware that I elect to call a PC, and I > recently loaded FreeBSD 2.2.1 on it. Everything works fine, except > the CDROM. > > It's a Toshiba model XM-3401B according to the label on the drive (at > bootup, the PC finds it as a XM-3401TA). It's connected to an Adaptec > SCSI controller accessed as aha0. > > I put this line into my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/cd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 1 2 > > and after boot, I su to root and try to mount the drive with either > of these commands: > > mount /cdrom > mount -o ro -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c /cdrom > > The agonizing thing is that either command sometimes works, and the > second one has sometimes worked without the fstab entry. But most of > the time, I get this error message: > > cd9660: /dev/cd0c: Device not configured > > Does anybody have an idea what causes this and what I can do to fix it? > > Thanks > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul H. Harder, Ph.D. paul_harder@bmc.com >