11-13-2001
Drive mounting
Hello, people. I am pretty new to linux, but I heard it was supposed to be good. So I installed it on an ancient 33mhz 486 with 27mbs of RAM. Ran into problems, patched them, and am here now.
I am trying to figure out how to use my floppy and CD-ROM drives. I click their respective icons on the KDE desktop, and it tells me that it is mounting drives. Then it gives me an error, and I am back at the desktop.
I grab the good 'ole redhat manual, and all it tells me is to type "mount (drive)" in a bash shell. I try that. It doesn't work. Back to the manual. It doesn't give me anything about troubleshooting, just vague instructions.
So I have tryed clicking on icons, typing mystic commands at bash prompts, but nothing works. What can I do?
Is the computer too slow? More ram? Incorrect installation? What is mounting a drive anyway?
As you see, I am in dire straits. Please help. Thank you,
-Furtoes00
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CD(9) BSD Kernel Developer's Manual CD(9)
NAME
cd -- CDROM driver for the CAM SCSI subsystem
DESCRIPTION
The cd device driver provides a read only interface for CDROM drives (SCSI type 5) and WORM drives (SCSI type 4) that support CDROM type com-
mands. Some drives do not behave as the driver expects. See the QUIRKS section for information on possible flags.
QUIRKS
Each CD-ROM device can have different interpretations of the SCSI spec. This can lead to drives requiring special handling in the driver.
The following is a list of quirks that the driver recognize.
CD_Q_NO_TOUCH This flag tell the driver not to probe the drive at attach time to see if there is a disk in the drive and find out what
size it is. This flag is currently unimplemented in the CAM cd driver.
CD_Q_BCD_TRACKS This flag is for broken drives that return the track numbers in packed BCD instead of straight decimal. If the drive seems
to skip tracks (tracks 10-15 are skipped) then you have a drive that is in need of this flag.
CD_Q_NO_CHANGER This flag tells the driver that the device in question is not a changer. This is only necessary for a CDROM device with
multiple luns that are not a part of a changer.
CD_Q_CHANGER This flag tells the driver that the given device is a multi-lun changer. In general, the driver will figure this out auto-
matically when it sees a LUN greater than 0. Setting this flag only has the effect of telling the driver to run the initial
read capacity command for LUN 0 of the changer through the changer scheduling code.
CD_Q_10_BYTE_ONLY
This flag tells the driver that the given device only accepts 10 byte MODE SENSE/MODE SELECT commands. In general these
types of quirks should not be added to the cd(4) driver. The reason is that the driver does several things to attempt to
determine whether the drive in question needs 10 byte commands. First, it issues a CAM Path Inquiry command to determine
whether the protocol that the drive speaks typically only allows 10 byte commands. (ATAPI and USB are two prominent exam-
ples of protocols where you generally only want to send 10 byte commands.) Then, if it gets an ILLEGAL REQUEST error back
from a 6 byte MODE SENSE or MODE SELECT command, it attempts to send the 10 byte version of the command instead. The only
reason you would need a quirk is if your drive uses a protocol (e.g., SCSI) that typically does not have a problem with 6
byte commands.
FILES
/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_cd.c is the driver source file.
SEE ALSO
cd(4), scsi(4)
HISTORY
The cd manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>. It was updated for CAM and FreeBSD 3.0 by Kenneth Merry
<ken@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD
September 2, 2003 BSD