From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 13:05:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5832216A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE7C43FB1 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.22.189]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031023200501.ENGS602.out002.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:05:01 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274B4AD22; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CAA9AC48; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <007e01c399a0$f40c26c0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: <20031023195355.45952.qmail@web10701.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:05:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [4.46.22.189] at Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:05:01 -0500 cc: bryan cassidy Subject: Re: DVD drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:05:03 -0000 > DVD drive in and took the plugs from my cd-rom drive > and pluged them into my dvd. I don't know shit about > hardware so maybe I shouldn't have done this. Thats As long as it's jumpered correctly, this should be fine > why I'm here. The handbook says I should ln -sf > /dev/acd0c /dev/dvd and ln -sf /dev/racd0c /dev/rdvd. > Would this apply to me sence I didn't *actually* add > the drive I just unpluged one and pluged another in? > Some help would be appreciated. I believe the purpose of this is that programs like mplayer expect /dev/dvd, which of course doesn't exist in FreeBSD. I suppose that linking to the acd[n] device is the easiest way to make things work without having to remember which device is your DVD drive. You can also manually specify the device in mplayer, but perhaps this is a hard-wired value in other programs.