From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 0:43:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aeon.conundrum.com (aeon.conundrum.com [216.191.71.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D854337B479 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 00:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.conundrum.com (smtp.conundrum.com [216.191.71.197]) by aeon.conundrum.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA64551; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 03:43:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mattp@conundrum.com) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 03:43:29 -0500 (EST) From: Matt of the Long Red Hair To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building cd devices In-Reply-To: <20001105013620.A16360@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: X-URL: http://www.conundrum.com/~mattp/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 40 E8 24 BC C1 98 00 F2 56 2F F6 7B 36 34 58 01 X-NIC-Handle: MP1229 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 18:15:55 -0500, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote: > > > > I seem to be having some trouble creating the necessary devices to access my > > CD-R, which is sitting on cd1 on my FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE machine. When I run > > `./MAKEDEV cd1` in /dev, all that appears to be created is /dev/cd1c, which > > doesn't seem to be enough. > > > > Anyone have any suggestions for creating the rest of the devices? > > Only the 'a' and 'c' partitions are made for CD devices. Is the 'a' > partition not getting created? No, it's not. In fact, it looks like cd1c wasn't even being created. Just to see if it would make a difference, I tried removing cd1c before doing a `./MAKEDEV cd1` and nothing was created at all. flux# rm cd1c flux# ./MAKEDEV cd1 flux# ls -l cd1* ls: No match. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ``Ford, there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet that they've worked out.'' -- Arthur Dent in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message