From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 15:09:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16163 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:09:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16158 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) From: mlduke@concentric.net Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman.concentric.net [207.155.184.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id SAA03173; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 18:09:41 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mlduke.concentric.net (ts002d07.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.43]) by newman.concentric.net (8.8.8) id SAA28530; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 18:09:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:14:16 +0000 (GMT) To: Tim Gerchmez cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A Driver, A Revelation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It just dawned yesterday that I do not really know what a driver _is_. A little bit of data on a disk. It "comes" with the device, in this case a Mitsumi CD Rom Drive. Win finally gave up the game. Format & reload time. Never should have let it go so long. DOS cannot now "see" that drive. A 12 cent 3.5" corrupted disk prevents reloading. Which holds up a major web site redesign project--22 items on an order form, auto credit card system, $20K in art inventory to sell and dead in the water. But FBSD can see it. Does anyone know: Is there a way to copy the driver to /dos and make it work there? Which means to say, any file can be copied to /dos, but I don't even know what file it would be in the absence of the absolute path name. It came as a revelation, also, that I could even work on /dos/windows/desktop files in FBSD, but this has come as a real shock. Anyone? ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message