From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Nov 27 9:23:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7F737B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE6E43EA9 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:23:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gARHL0rv038766; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:21:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id gARHKxlh038763; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:21:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:20:59 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Mark Santcroos Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux cdrom block device In-Reply-To: <20021127071836.GB598@laptop.6bone.nl> Message-ID: <20021127122013.X38744-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_AUTH_WARNING,NO_MX_FOR_FROM,AWL version=2.31 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, I was talking about stable, I'm not sure how to get it to work with stable, and I remember getting it to work at some point. Ken On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Mark Santcroos wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:04:49AM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possible to emulate the cdrom block device for > > linux emulation? FreeBSD right now has only character devices, but several > > linux programs that directly access the cdrom device require block > > devices, so I was wondering if there was a way to create a device node for > > linux that's a block device for the cdrom drive. > > For -current this should be done with GEOM. It is not only needed for > CDROM drive access both also for all disk access except the VMWARE virtual > disk. > For -stable GEOM is not an option. > > Mark > > -- > Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre > http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message