From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 8:39: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F0515167 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA51312; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:38:20 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Randy Porter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM devices appearing twice as /dev/cd0a and /dev/cd0c Message-ID: <19990611083820.D51017@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <37607DB7.4A97@jnpcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37607DB7.4A97@jnpcs.com>; from Randy Porter on Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 11:08:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 11:08:39PM -0400, Randy Porter wrote: > I ran MAKEDEV for the additional 4 CD drives, and I now have devices for > all five CDs, but it seems like they all appear twice, as both a cdXa > and cdXc. This is normal. For disks, the "a" partition is normall the first partition, and the "c" partition is a "fake" partition which refers to the disk as a whole. Try "disklabel da0" or "disklabel wd0" (former SCSI, latter IDE) to see the label for your hard disk. You will probably see a bunch of partitions, maybe a, b, d, e, and so on; there will also be a partition "c" which is the size of the whole disk. As you have observed, for the cd device, the "first" partition and the "whole disk" partition are basically the same. I don't know if there are any differences at all. Matt -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message