Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:49:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mount cdrom... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971127174737.20686V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971125020230.4627A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Wei Weng wrote: > What is the device name for a cdrom hooked up to second IDE port? > (Considered as second slave drive) And where can i find the documentation > about the name of specific device? Freebsd seems confuse me by the device > name a lot. :) The CDs are numbered by the order in which they are probed. If you have one IDE CDROM, it comes up as /dev/wcd0*. If you have two, they number as /dev/wcd0*, /dev/wcd1*, and so forth. For documentation on a specific device,do `man <device>', i.e., `man sd' gets the SCSI disk driver. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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