From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 5:54:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www0e.netaddress.usa.net (www0e.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD12A14F37 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm2@netscape.net) Received: (qmail 6477 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Jun 1999 12:54:06 -0000 Message-ID: <19990611125406.6476.qmail@www0e.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.34 by www0e via web-mailer(M3.0.0.118) on Fri Jun 11 12:54:06 GMT 1999 Date: 11 Jun 99 08:54:06 EDT From: C J Michaels To: Randy Porter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CDROM devices appearing twice as /dev/cd0a and /dev/cd0c] X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.118) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randy, This is perfectly normal. The a and c represent partitions (in the UNIX = sense of the word). The a partition is just the 1st partition on the drive and= the c partition represents the "whole" drive. The reason the mount works on both, is because in the case of your cd-rom= s the a partition takes up the whole drive. In the case of a harddrive the a a= nd c would generally be different, but I personally heard of a partitioned cdr= om (I could be wrong). Anyway, it is normal, take a look at man disklabel -Chris P.S. Sorry for the netscape mail, my regular work e-mail is down because = of that worm virus. Randy Porter wrote: > I am setting up a FreeBSD 2.2.8 server to act as both a gateway and as = a > CDROM server using SAMBA to share CDs and file space for Windoze > workstations. > = > I have 5 NEC SCSI CD drives connected to an Adaptec 1522 controller. = > The device IDs are from 1 to 6, the card is 7, and the chain is > terminated. They are all functioning correctly using DOS. > = > I ran MAKEDEV for the additional 4 CD drives, and I now have devices fo= r > all five CDs, but it seems like they all appear twice, as both a cdXa > and cdXc. > = > I can mount CDs using either the cdXa or cdXc, and there appears to be > no difference between them. > = > I searched the web pages for cd0a and cd0c with no success. > = > Is this normal? If so, is there a difference between the devices? > = > If it is not normal, any ideas about what could be causing it? > = > Thanks. > = > p.s. If the answer is RTFM, please let me know what chapter or man pag= e > I should be looking for. > = > = > = > = > -- = > Randy Porter > rporter@jnpcs.com > http://www.jnpcs.com/rporter > = > ___________________________________________ > = > Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes > = > If you can read this, you're overeducated. > = > = > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message