From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 17:49:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA08840 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA08828 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:49:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA20834; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:49:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:49:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Wei Weng cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: mount cdrom... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ', 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