CD ROM Drive Not Detected in PCBSD 7.0

[scubapro25]

Hi:

A rather odd problem: PCBSD does not seem to auto detect a CD when it is inserted.

It has been so long since I've encountered this problem, that I had to go back and review the basic BSD commands to mount a CD: mount /cdrom, which of course did not work, even as root.

I also tried various cds and even checked in my media and mount folders for some sign that it had recognized the drive: nothing.

Am I going to have to go in and manually edit fstab? I thought those day were over....

Any suggestions would be appreciated.....thanks.

Thanks,

Scubapro

[TerryP]

usage:

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/<cddevice> /mount/point

example:

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt

NB: mount -t cd9660 and mount_cd9660 are roughly the same



In my experience automounting out of box comes and goes with releases and support varies from system to system. You may also wish to check out daemonforums for a few notes on setting up HAL.

[scubapro25]

usage:

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/<cddevice> /mount/point

example:

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt

NB: mount -t cd9660 and mount_cd9660 are roughly the same



In my experience automounting out of box comes and goes with releases and support varies from system to system. You may also wish to check out daemonforums for a few notes on setting up HAL.

OK, will do.......thanks!

Scubapro

[haddenharley]

I personally consider it noteworthy that not all of the FreeBSD/PC-BSD distribution is licensed under the modified BSD License - you'll find a multitude of licenses in the package. The very much talked about ZFS filesystem, for example, is licensed under Sun Microsystem's CDDL, and you'll find a lot of other parts in the FreeBSD core distro that are not under BSDL, either (but at least distributed along with the rest, royalty-free); there are even some proprietary BLOBs in there. Of course, all the other software you mentioned that's not "officially" part of FreeBSD also comes under a load of varying licenses, down to the C compiler the project uses (which is GCC, by the way).