> 
> I am running a binary snapshot of the 4/26 source of MacBSD on an SE/30
> with 8mb ram.  I have an internal 100mb hd, and external scsi drives
> salvaged from my old PC (a 700mb drive which MacBSD is installed on, a NEC
> 3x cdrom and NBR 7 cdrom changer).  I am new to both the macintosh and
> netbsd, but have run freebsd on a pc for a year or so.
> 
> When trying to read cd's (like the BSDisc or the FreeBSD set), I can read
> files from some directories, but not from others.  For example, on the
> BSDisc Netbsd disk, I can read and copy files from the kernal source config
> directory, but I cannot read files in the source directory for mount.  I
> can list them, but trying to read or copy the files either results in a
> read error, or an 'invalid arguement' message from cp.
> This problem occurs in both cdrom drives.

You might also try asking on current-users, the list dedicated to 
the "current" version of NetBSD. As the 4/26 snapshot was of current,
the problem might have been addressed.

Take care,

Bill