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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:44:00 PDT
From:      Maula Matti <lmfmtm@ericsson.fi>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ATAPI CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <303E0925@msmail.lmf.ericsson.se>

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>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've got some problems related to ATAPI cd-roms.
>> I fetched the wcd11.tgz file and installed all the files
>> as well as I could to my 2.0.5.
>>
>> I tried to follow the instructions but I have to say that
>> a made wild guess when it came to major and minor numbers,
>> I just took the numbers next in the line: 19 and 67.
>>

Are these numbers OK?

>> I ran the /dev/MAKEDEV.
>>
>> MAKEDEV
>> crw-r-----  1 root  operator   67,   0 Aug 11 07:07 /dev/rwcd0c
>> brw-r-----  1 root  operator   19,   0 Aug 11 07:07 /dev/wcd0c
>>
>> Then I didn't know what to do next! I tried to mount the cdrom
>> directly, didn't work. Then I tried to run newfs, didn't work.
>> I gave the command newfs:
>
>Why? A cdrom is a read only device. Or do you have a worm drive?
>

No I don't.
I just don't know that much about unix administration,
I tried everything I could find.

>>
>> newfs /dev/rwcd0c
>> newfs: /dev/rwcd0c: Device not configured
>>
>> newfs /dev/wcd0
>> newfs: /dev/wcd0c: Device not configured
>>
>> I tried to mount the cd:
>>
>> mount -t cd9660
>> OK, doesn't do anything
>>
>> mount /dev/wcd0c /cdrom
>> /dev/wcd0c on /cdrom: Device not configured
>>
>> What to do next?
>
>
>mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /mnt

I tried that as well but I got the same answer 'Device not configured'

Any suggestions? Has disktab-file anything to do with these things?
I'm using Toshiba's T2150CDT if that helps.

>
>>
>> /Matti
>>
>
>--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>



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