Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 08:53:00 PST From: Duncan Barclay <Duncan.Barclay@pa-consulting.com> To: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: IDE CDROM on 2.1.5R Message-ID: <32B82315@SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM>
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Hi Another snippet of trivia if anyone is interested. I have 2.1.5R and a Sony CDU-77 IDE CDROM drive which does sort of work and IDE disks (this is my home machine). I wanted to mount a CDROM but /etc/wekly had started up and was doing a mkwhatis. Doing the mount generated the usual /dev/wcd0c: device not configured. Usually a reboot clears this so I waited until the mkwhatis finished. Just before rebooting I tried remounting the CDROM and it worked! So I played with that for a while and then wanted to use another CDROM. The first time I tried the mount it failed as above, so I thought lets just do an ls and see what happens...it worked. I then tried to repeat this a sequence a few times and it seems to work reliably. ie. $ mount /cdrom /dev/wcd0c: device not configured $ ls / $ mount /cdrom $ ls /cdrom .... I know that 2.2 ATAPI support should fix all these but for those of us still on 2.1.5R then this may be useful. Duncan Barclay
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