Help mounting my CD rewritable drive and floppy drive in KDE desktop

[Enrique Nieves Jr.]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>"Enrique Nieves Jr." <nieves_e at charter.net> writes:
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>>I tried mounting my CD rewritable disk from the KDE desktop by
>>right-clicking and following the path - create new -> link to device
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>>CD writer device.  When I successfully place the CD Writer icon on the
>>desktop and tried to mount, I got the following error message:
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>>Could not mount device
>>The reported error was:
>>mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0 input/output error
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>>I get the same thing when attempting to mount my floppy drive.
>>Note:  I'm trying to read CDs with jpegs copied from a Windows XP box.
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>Can you do it from the command line?
>Do you get the same errors?
>Are the devices present?
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I was able to mount the cd rom on the KDE desktop, and it work. It only 
needed to point to the /dev/acd0 in the Device tap of the icon. However, 
I can't do this with the floppy. I can't find where the mount point is 
on the Device tab. Also, I can't mount he floppy from the command line. 
When I use % mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, I get /floppy: no such directory. I 
tried the same command with /media instead of /floppy since that's where 
the hard drive and cd rom are, but I get the same message.

I can't seem to find the floppy device anywhere.

I appreciate your help with this.

Enrique

I'm using the KDE environment in a PCBSD distro of FreeBSD. The hard 
drive and the cdrom seem to be present in the /media directory. There's 
an fd folder with three files 0, 1, and 2 on the /dev directory, but 
these seem to be empty. Also there's an fd0 file in the /dev, but it's 
also empty.