From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 5 17:22:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F9337B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15029; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:22:24 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27380; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:22:24 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200009060022.LAA27380@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: amg Cc: Bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel funkiness? In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:42:50 -0400. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:22:23 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Version: 4.1 CDROM > Symptomes: Though I am able to mount a CD, > when I attempt to dd from the > CD, /dev/cd0a, I get the error > msg, "invalid device". This is > with 4.1. > > !! Most noticable, EVERY device in > /dev is a character device! Is > this correct? These are both symptoms of the one change: 4.x no longer has (user-visible) block devices. Use /dev/rcd0a for the dd instead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message