Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:20:10 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu>, Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change acd0 to /dev/cdrom like most programs want Message-ID: <3A0B5B5A.92365E68@home.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0011091543590.25824-100000@unix1.cc.ksu.edu> <3A0B2052.5AC3159C@planetwe.com>
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Drew Sanford wrote: > > Joshua Delong Thomas wrote: > > > > <PossibleStupidQuestion> > > That post about mounting a cd made me think of > > another question. Most > > programs that I've used that utilize the cd default to /dev/cdrom as the > > cdrom device. Is there a way to make my cdrom device be /dev/cdrom0 > > instead of acd0? Most of these programs are small, mp3 rippers, small cd > > players with no .config or .conf file so I was just curious. > > </PossibleStupidQuestion> > > > > -Josh > > I would think creating /dev/cdrom as a link to acd0 would do the trick. > > -- > Drew Sanford > Systems Administrator > Planetwe.com > Email: drew@planetwe.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Alot of programs rely on an environment variable to point to the cd player device, if forget exacltly, something like export CDPLAYER=/dev/acd0c did the trick for me. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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