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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 01:56:26 -0800
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@conundrum.com>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building cd devices
Message-ID:  <20001105015626.Y75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050338030.29137-100000@aeon.conundrum.com>; from mattp@conundrum.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:43:29AM -0500
References:  <20001105013620.A16360@panzer.kdm.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050338030.29137-100000@aeon.conundrum.com>

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On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:43:29AM -0500, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 18:15:55 -0500, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote:
> > > 
> > > I seem to be having some trouble creating the necessary devices to access my
> > > CD-R, which is sitting on cd1 on my FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE machine.  When I run
> > > `./MAKEDEV cd1` in /dev, all that appears to be created is /dev/cd1c, which
> > > doesn't seem to be enough.
> > > 
> > > Anyone have any suggestions for creating the rest of the devices?
> > 
> > Only the 'a' and 'c' partitions are made for CD devices.  Is the 'a'
> > partition not getting created?
> 
> No, it's not.
> 
> In fact, it looks like cd1c wasn't even being created.  Just to see if it
> would make a difference, I tried removing cd1c before doing a `./MAKEDEV cd1`
> and nothing was created at all.
> 
> flux# rm cd1c
> flux# ./MAKEDEV cd1
> flux# ls -l cd1*
> ls: No match.

What version is your MAKEDEV? Actually, doing 'cd0' _or_ 'cd1' should
create both the cd0 and cd1 devices. Try a,

  # sh -x MAKEDEV cd1

To see what is going on.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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