> Can you confirm that the DVD is readable in _any_ drive? Not just the ones > with > your FreeBSD and NetBSD systems?
> Are you sure you want /dev/cd0a instead of /dev/cd0d? > Can you confirm that the data on the DVD isn't garbage? Here's a slightly > crazy > idea: use dd(1) to copy the data from /dev/rcd0a into a disk image, then mount > it with the help of vnconfig(8). You can also run file(1) on the disk image > and > see what it thinks it is. > In my experience, Seagate often does silly stuff, like hiding things. For > example, my "fresh-out-of-the-box" 1TB hard disk from them actually had a > bunch > of dotfiles and $hidden-Windows$ stuff on it. So it's worth running "ls -a" in > addition to "ls" as you mentioned. Seagate probably doesn't want you to > consume > its data in "irregular" ways, like using NetBSD ;) -Christian I still wonder what that message means: CD mmc 16, mmc_cur 0x80, mmc_cap 0xd3b I tried mounting /dev/cd0d instead of /dev/cd0a, same result. ls -a showed . .. so something had to be there, albeit well-hidden. I suspect the DVD might be defective, or maybe put together in the wrong way. I intend to try the DVD with the System Rescue CD (Linux) 4.3.0 (the latest) and Haiku R1Alpha4. Maybe even FreeDOS, though that could fail to read a good CD or DVD. I also have a Seagate 4 TB hard drive, NAS model but used as regular internal SATA hard drive. So far so good; I partitioned with Rod Smith's gdisk, installed from FreeBSD ports, not available for NetBSD. Tom
