I'm lofting this up on -hackers to get the attention of the ATAPI CD driver programmer -- Soren, you still around? Take a look at this. On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Woody Carey wrote: > Ok, here is some more information: > > Here is the behavior when there is no cd in the drive at bootup [reboot, > actually] > ^M^[[Kmyname# mount /cdrom > cd9660: Input/output error > myname# dmesg [...] > wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <ATAPI CDROM/V2.10>, removable, accel, dma, iordy > acd0: drive speed 0 - 4125KB/sec, 128KB cache > acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA > acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels > acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray > acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked > and here is the dmesg output and mount output with a cd in the drive at > boot: > > myname# dmesg [...] > wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <ATAPI CDROM/V2.10>, removable, accel, dma, iordy > acd0: drive speed 4125KB/sec, 128KB cache > acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA > acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels > acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray > acd0: Medium: CD-ROM 120mm data disc loaded, unlocked > myname# mount /cdrom > > There was some success message on the console after this mount > indicating success. > It did not appear in this script output, obviously. Bizarre. That may be a driver bug or your drive is getting into an inconsistent state if it doesn't boot with a CD present. What brand/model of CD drive is it? Doug White Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

