Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:38:04 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com> To: Dominic Mitchell <dom@happygiraffe.net> Cc: Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What device is used to mount a USB CDROM? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104181337420.93097-100000@henny.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <20010412090528.A610@ppe.happygiraffe.net>
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The drive is probably ATAPI based and therefore not (yet) supported
through the umass driver.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:46:47PM -0400, Mark Evenson wrote:
> > With a ThinkPad X20, an IBM USB CD-ROM drive is attached to the
> > system with the following message:
> >
> > Apr 11 23:32:36 quid /kernel: ugen0: TEAC IBM USB CD-ROM Drive, rev1.10/1.34 addr 3
> >
> > I cannot find the corresponding block device to actually mount a
> > filesystem from the CD-ROM (/dev/ugen* are all character not block devices).
> >
> > Can anybody point me in the right direction, or is this just a case of the
> > USB code recognizing the device in a probe without having an actual
> > implementation to access block devices?
>
> You'll need SCSI support compiled into your kernel, and it should then
> appear as the requisite scsi cdrom device (not sure if this is da0).
>
> ugen* is generally not the interface you want to use with USB devices.
>
> -Dom
>
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