From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 0:47: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laxmls01.socal.rr.com (laxmls01.socal.rr.com [24.30.163.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7CD37B511 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 00:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adampalitz@earthlink.net) Received: from adam ([24.24.254.146]) by laxmls01.socal.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 00:47:03 -0700 Message-ID: <005e01bfc09d$1db0fcc0$92fe1818@socal.rr.com> From: "adam palitz" To: "free bsd questions" References: <000701bfc030$c50d2740$92fe1818@socal.rr.com> <20000517202609.G21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: acd0 probed but not in dev dir? Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 00:46:02 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tried ./MAKEDEV acd2 ....neither acd0 nor acd1 appear.....what the hell am I doing wrong...its getting frustrating...espeacially since at one time they where appearing...and I'm not in the mood to reinstall. Thanks for the help adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Smithurst" To: "ap" Cc: "free bsd questions" Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 12:26 PM Subject: Re: acd0 probed but not in dev dir? > ap wrote: > > > on startup the probe finds my two cdroms as devices acd0, and acd1...The > > devices however aren't listed in my dev directory (makeing it imposible for > > me to mount my cdrom) ...I have tried to use the ./MAKEDEV acd0 ... > > it appears to work (I don't receive any error messages ) but acd0 still > > doesn't appear in the dev directory... > > I also have a problem with other devices not showing up in my dev directory > > that have been probed...Why is this > > and how do I specificaly get my cdrom in the dev dir? > > Try ./MAKEDEV acd2, this should make 2 acd devices, named acd0 and acd1. > It would appear to be a bug that ./MAKEDEV all doesn't at least make > acd0 (MAKEDEV all does MAKEDEV acd0, and as you have found the latter > does nothing). > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message