Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:13:43 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: johpe159@student.liu.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: device name ? Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C74@site2s1>
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If I may be so bold as to clarify a couple things. The reason specifically that you would mount /dev/acd0c or /dev/acd0a, etc.. the trailing letter refers to the partition entry in the disk's partition table. "c" is a special partition that just refers to the whole drive. Almost always with a cdrom, there is only 1 partition so you can just mount /dev/acd0c. Since you underlined the /mnt portion of the command, maybe you needed some clarification to that. That is the "mount point" which is basically a directory where the drive is to be mounted to. If you are using both cdrom's you can't use /mnt for both. You would want to make a new directory such as /cdrom or /cdrom1 or something like that, and mount the new cdrom to that directory. Hope this helps. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kennett [SMTP:mike@laurasia.com.au] > Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 5:34 AM > To: johpe159@student.liu.se > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: device name ? > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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