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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:18:41 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-BETA displaying cd0 as an install target?
Message-ID:  <200409011718.41943.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040901210625.GA67683@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20040828153451.GA38901@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040901210625.GA67683@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Wednesday 01 September 2004 05:06 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 05:34:51PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote..
>
> > Did anyone see sysinstall listing cd0 as an install target
> > on BETA1, on any other architecture than Alpha?
> >
> > On Alpha, sysinstall presents one with the option on partition
> > and install on cd0.  Which is slightly daft..
>
> It only happens with SCSI CD drives, so things that turn up as cd0.
> ATA CD drives aka acd0 do not get displayed by sysinstall.

This is probably GEOM related.  I wonder if cd0 uses the DISK class unlike 
acd0 which uses its own ACD class.

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