Accessing the CD-ROM

[Marius Vollmer]

Hi,

I have trouble accessing the CD-ROM drive from GNU/Hurd.  I have the
Hurd running in a VMware virtual machine, with a virtual drive on hd0,
and a virtual ATAPI CD-ROM on hd1.

After login in as root, I do

    # cd /dev
    # MAKEDEV hd1
    # showtrans hd1
    /hurd/storeio hd1
    # cat hd1
    cat: hd1: Invalid argument

What could be wrong here?  How can I get more information?

I can send you a screen shot of the Mach boot messages, if that is of
any help.

Thanks!