From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 20:24:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D67337B40B for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 20:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.250.18.60] (ws18-60.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.60]) by ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4H3OYW3002442; Fri, 17 May 2002 13:24:37 +1000 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:23:10 +1000 Subject: Re: no fix for digital camera i/o error From: f3z To: Chris Staskewicz , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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