Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:38:41 -0600 (MDT) From: "James R. Shrenk" <dionysos3@crosswinds.net> To: Woody Carey <carey@roguewave.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906181621570.538-100000@neptune.twrol.com> In-Reply-To: <EB55BCC162CAD111BD0A00A0C9979E3201944D97@cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com>
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CC'ed back to list Somebody else might want to take this up in more detail, but I think I can get you started. Essentially, each device that loads up and appears in the dmesg output is the device as a whole. When dmesg shows acd0 that is the cdrom drive that is being recognized. CDROMs are simple after that in the sense that all it takes to access them is to access by acd0a or acd0c. What I included below with wcd0c is actually the same device as a symbolic link. With hard drives they have subsequent slice and partition entries that you have to consider before mounting them. If you have the money, Greg Lehey covers this very extensively in the opening chapters of The Complete FreeBSD. Hopefully, too, somebody will pick this up and give a better run down of it. James On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Woody Carey wrote: > ok, thanks! I'll try this when I get home. > > Do you know anything about device names as relates to what is in /dev, > what shows up in dmesg, and what to pass to mount? Is there anywhere to > read about this? [The mknod manpge says look in > /usr/src/sys/conf/device.something approximately, but I don't have that > file on my system...] > > > line and add in a correct one. As an example I have included > > mine (should > > be similar to what you want: > > > > /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > > > the zeroes will be offset one tab from the rest of the file, > > this is okay. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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