Since upgrading from Mac OS 10.2.2 from 10.2.1 and also since a disc error I have been unable to mount CDs and disc images in MacOS X (they mount fine in MacOS 9.2.2 so no drive failiure). Furthermore classic won't start up. I've tried re-blessing the OS 9 system folder, reinstalling OS 9 hasn't worked.
to fix these problems I've been advised by people on macfixit and macosxhints to reformat and reinstall. But this will take a significant amount of time I don't really have. Not to mention finding somewhere to back up 11Gb of stuff.
― Ed (dali), Monday, 25 November 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)
You probably do need to reformat & reinstall. Do you have a friend w/ a CD burner you can borrow? That's usually the easiest way to back up lots of junk....
― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)
If this was a normal unix system, I would first suggest looking
around at the device entries in /dev and the mount points /cdrom
or whatnot, to see if anything looks suspicious (missing entries,
wrong ownership, wrong permissions). Is there a log file somewhere
(like /var/log/messages) with relevent error messages? Perhaps
something to do with amd, the auto-mount demon? Does ps show an
instance of amd running? (I know nothing about Mac OS X.)
― Dave Fischer, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)
you should try just a reinstall of X first. if that doesn't work then you may have to go the long route
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)
automount crashes when you try to start it so I assume its not running at all, however top shows automount to be running. How would you fix automount in the unix world. Assume for the purposes of this excercise that Mac OS X is BSD because all it really is is BSD with a snazzy window manager, (not quite true but all of the little system daemons work in that sort of way).
Reinstall of just X has been tried, unfortunately.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)
Also, Apple Repair permissions utility in disk utility repaired a load of permissions but didn't fix this. I'm not sure what I'm looking for in the dev directory. the most likely candidates are
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 0 Nov 26 10:15 disk0
br--r----- 1 root operator 14, 1 Nov 26 10:15 disk0s1
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 2 Nov 26 10:15 disk0s2
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 3 Nov 26 10:15 disk0s3
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 4 Nov 26 10:15 disk0s4
br--r----- 1 root operator 14, 5 Nov 26 10:15 disk0s5
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 6 Nov 26 10:15 disk0s6
and
crw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 0 Nov 26 10:15 rdisk0
cr--r----- 1 root operator 14, 1 Nov 26 10:15 rdisk0s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 2 Nov 26 10:15 rdisk0s2
crw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 3 Nov 26 10:15 rdisk0s3
crw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 4 Nov 26 10:15 rdisk0s4
cr--r----- 1 root operator 14, 5 Nov 26 10:15 rdisk0s5
crw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 6 Nov 26 10:15 rdisk0s6
the other entries are all terminal's logs and modem type entries, in the main with permissions of crw-rw-rw-
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)
seven years pass...
so I have a one-year old macbook pro - and since last week audio CDs won't mount. Google tells me that this seems to be a widespread problem with Matsushita superdrives.
Has anyone had this problem? any luck in fixing it (besides changin the drive)?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 6 September 2010 08:24 (fifteen years ago)