Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:23:10 +1000 From: f3z <f3z@iprimus.com.au> To: Chris Staskewicz <cjs@math.utah.edu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: no fix for digital camera i/o error Message-ID: <B90AB4BE.9EA%f3z@iprimus.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0205161921370.9707-100000@sunfish.math.utah.edu>
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on 17/5/2002 11:35 AM, Chris Staskewicz at cjs@math.utah.edu wrote: > But when I mount (both 'mount' and 'mount_msdos') on /dev/da0, I get > "Input/output error"; mounting on /dev/pass0, gives "Block device required". I dont know anything about mounting cameras, but I can help with that error. There are two types of devices in /dev : block devices, and character devices. Some devices communicate using characters (stdio, /dev/null, etc . . .) and some communicate using blocks (hard drives and cd's). As far as I know it doesnt make sense to mount a character device. Who made the /dev/da0 (or /dev/pass0). Is there a flag on the filename in /dev to specify as to whether it is a block or character device? Regards, Jacob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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