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Date:      Sat, 8 Jun 2002 13:54:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@TheEirons.org>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems using cdrecord and a Yamaha CRW4416S CD-RW drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21_heb2.09.0206081352510.15715-100000@piglet.theeirons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020608143717.A12905@panzer.kdm.org>

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> > The CD-RW drive works fine on the same machine with WNT, and it also used
> > to work longago (I haven't used it for a year, at least), with FreeBSD
> > 3.4 and the then-current cdrecord from ports. It may even have worked with
> > FreeBSD 4.2, but I'm not sure about that.
> 
> My guess is that you haven't made enough pass(4) devices in /dev.
> 
> By default, I think there are 4 pass devices created, and since cd1 uses
> the 5th pass device (pass4), it wouldn't have been created on install.
> 
> So go into /dev, and type:
> 
> su
> ./MAKEDEV pass10
> 
> That will make 10 pass devices.(pass0 through pass9)

Hmm... So simple! This was indeed the problem. So silly of me to not have
checked that... I guess back when I used it before I had one hard disk
less... Thanks alot for the quick response!

> 
> Ken
> --
> Kenneth Merry
> ken@kdm.org
> 
Nadav


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