Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:06:59 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confusing section of the FAQ Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503311448340.11664@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200503301307.35792.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200503301307.35792.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh, On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Josh Paetzel wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT > > 9.22. How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other > removable media? > > Question 2 uses /dev/cd0c for it's example. > Question 3 uses /dev/acd0 for it's example. > Question 4 uses /dev/cd0c again. > > There's no mention of which drive type (SCSI vs. IDE) uses which > device Before I submit a patch I would like to know if this seems > vague or confusing to anyone except myself. Josh, See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76942 The commit at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml#rev1.690 is a somewhat different patch than I originally submitted. In my original patch, still available at http://zanchey.ucc.asn.au/freebsd/usermount.faq.book.sgml.patch, it sticks with acd0, because (generally speaking) new users/readers of the FAQ will have IDE drives. (I realise that not everyone uses IDE, and I should clarify this point. In my experience, users with SCSI drives are generally slightly more clueful than those with just IDE drives.) I didn't have any problems with the version committed by jcamou@, mainly because I didn't spot this inconsistency. The best course of action here, I think, is probably to submit a separate patch and PR (because mine has been closed) and say something like "Problem introduced in commit 1.689 as a result of docs/76942". A good spot on your behalf! Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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