On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:23:21PM +0100, Anders Normann wrote:
> I am a newbie when it comes to OpenBSD, but have already set up my
> web-server with 3.8 and is quite happy with the ease of installation and
> the way it behaves. Have also installed 3.8 on a spare pc which sits in
> a closet and is used for testing. Use ssh to connect to that pc.
>
> But ran into problems when trying to mount a cd by the command: mount -t
> cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt/cdrom which returned the error message:
> input/output error.
> Thereafter it was impossible to release the cd and trying to "umount" it
> was to no avail; it was not mounted!
>
> What am I doing wrong? Include the output of dmesg.
>
> OpenBSD 3.8 (GENERIC) #138: Sat Sep 10 15:41:37 MDT 2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.42 GHz
> cpu0:
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,CNXT-ID
> real mem = 1073258496 (1048104K)
I want some of that spares you have.
Aside from that, I don't see anything obviously wrong outside the error
message itself. Is cd0 working correctly under other OSes? Are all
cables securely in place? Does switching cd0 and cd1 help?
Joachim