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To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Is the CD driver supposed to attach() now regardless of media? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:35:01 MDT."
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 02:08:08 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> I just looked through sysinstall a little bit, and I think I have an idea
> of what might be going on.  Jordan, you can probably tell me if I'm off
> base.
> 
> It looks like that as soon as sysinstall starts up, it scans for available
> devices, by just opening them.
> 
> Of course if you don't have media in your CDROM drive, you can't open the
> device.

Correct.  This is a known problem which is unfortunately only sorta-kinda
documented; I'm frankly so used to this being a requirement for both
CDROM and tape installs that I think I forgot to even mention it in
the manual page. :-)

- Jordan


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