From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 23:59:39 2005 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 03B8816A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:59:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net (ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net [166.102.165.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC4543D5D for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:59:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trey@fastmail.fm) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (really [69.40.64.219]) by ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP <20050119235934.LZHV13395.ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net@[192.168.0.2]> for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:59:34 -0600 From: Trey Sizemore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44zmz5m8na.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1106092051.88794.5.camel@localhost> <44zmz5m8na.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:01:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1106179298.88794.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Detecting CD devices 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: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:59:39 -0000 On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 16:06 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > What device are those applications looking for? > > Perhaps (just a guess) they're looking for /dev/cdrom or /dev/cd0 and > you only have /dev/acd0? I'm not sure. I thought I remember there being a way to 'alias' the devices such that /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd, etc. could point to the same device such that programs would find them. Is this the case? How would fstab look? -- Cheers, Trey --- The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H.L. Mencken 6:59PM up 2 days, 25 mins, 1 user, load averages: 1.31, 0.76, 0.60 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-STABLE i386