In message <Pine.SGI.3.91.970105165715.18518A-100000@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk> you wrote:

> Hi,
>   Ok your mount line is correct apart from the device file.

That whas from the install guide which is probably out of date.

> The SCSI CDROM device is cd so mounting a SCSI CDROM would use the device
> /dev/cd0a, /dev/cd1a ...
> 
> SA kernels do have ATAPI. If the kernel reports an ATAPI bus and the 
> probe reports an ATAPI CDROM drive then you should be able to use this.
> 
> The ATAPI CDROM driver uses the acd device
> so you should be using /dev/acd0a for your mount command
> 
> ATAPI support is not standard is NetBSD or RiscBSD yet as the driver code 
> is not standard in kernels yet i.e. there is not officail support yet. 
> As such  this means that the acd special files in /dev will not exist by 
> default. This means you will have to create them.
> 
> I'll repeat the steps here but note, they are in the FAQ.

Mark, I have to say that I'm extremely sorry, I'll have a better look 
at that before asking next time.

> mknod /dev/acd0a b 20 0
> mknod /dev/acd0c b 20 2
> mknod /dev/racd0a c 20 0
> mknod /dev/racd0c c 20 2

I guess I need a book about Unix soon. The files inside /dev are some 
special sort, aren't they ??? 

> They you should be able to use
> 
> mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/acd0a /cdrom

Thanks a lot !


-- 
Thomas Boroske