From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 17 2:33:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laurasia.com.au (lauras.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC721159EB for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 02:33:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@laurasia.com.au) Received: (from mike@localhost) by laurasia.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA12072; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:33:36 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from mike) From: Michael Kennett Message-Id: <199909170933.RAA12072@laurasia.com.au> Subject: Re: device name ? In-Reply-To: <37E1EB35.D4778C98@student.liu.se> from Johan Pettersson at "Sep 17, 1999 09:18:13 am" To: johpe159@student.liu.se (Johan Pettersson) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:33:35 +0800 (WST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello! > > I don't understand how fbsd name thier dev. > From dmesg > [ dmesg dump cut ] > acd0: drive speed 4134KB/sec, 1024KB cache > acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, packet track > acd0: supported write types: CD-R, CD-RW, test write > > A nice fellow named ken helped me to mount the cd-rw. > mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /mnt > ^^^^^ > How do you read that from dmesg ? > I have installed a cdrom-player, > so I tried mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd1c /mnt , but it din't work =) > Can someone xplain how to read dmesg ( device names) ? > > //thx Johan Hi Johan, It's a good question that you've asked. Have a look in the /dev/ directory for the wcd* devices. On my system, I have /dev/wcd0a -> acd0a /dev/wcd0c -> acd0c i.e These are symbolic links to the 'true' name of the CD device. So to mount your other CD-ROM drive, you would enter: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd1c /mnt As you've noticed, the /dev/acd1 device appears in your dmesg output. Alternatively, you could create the symbolic links wcd1a/c in the /dev directory (I don't like that, however, as I feel it is better to refer to the `true' device name) Regards, Mike Kennett. (mike@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message