Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 02:08:08 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> 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? Message-ID: <77220.929178488@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:35:01 MDT." <199906111935.NAA50622@panzer.plutotech.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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