Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:20:55 +0200 From: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 available Message-ID: <20040928202055.GI62265@werd> In-Reply-To: <20040928200019.021DA5D0A@ptavv.es.net> References: <20040928192424.GH62265@werd> <20040928200019.021DA5D0A@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:00:18PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I'm afraid that you're still missing the point. I'm not talking about > media. The DRIVE is not present at boot time. No /dev/acd0 to point the > symlink to. I insert the drive and use atacontrol(8) to connect and > /dev/acd0 appear, but no /dev/cdrom. In some platforms ATA disk drives > are just as removable as USB devices. > > That's why I thought that devd might be the right approach. Oops, sorry, I clearly missed the point. After inserting the drive you could do /etc/rc.d/devfs start and the symlinks should appear (assuming you have those link lines in devfs.conf). -Radek
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