Date: 20 Jan 2005 09:48:52 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detecting CD devices Message-ID: <44ekggrwa3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1106179298.88794.11.camel@localhost> References: <1106092051.88794.5.camel@localhost> <44zmz5m8na.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1106179298.88794.11.camel@localhost>
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Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> writes: > 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? fstab(5) is irrelevant; that has to do with mounting filesystems. What you're thinking of is called a "symbolic link" (see ln(1)). On 5.x, you can configure devfs(8) to make links for you. /etc/devfs.conf comes with an example for making a link from /dev/acd0 to /dev/cdrom.
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