Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:05:14 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: Martin Ostermann <ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to mount a CD in a WORM for reading? Message-ID: <199610022305.AA072497514@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Oct 1996 16:39:06 %2B0200."
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> When I configured the worm support in the kernel, the CD-writer only
> shows up as the worm, no longer as cd0. When I try to mount /dev/cd0,
> it says "device not configured", which is true, it doesn't show up
> during boot.
>
> Now, worm(4) says that it should supply all capabilities of cd(4), but
> there's no worm block device (/dev/worm0).
Unfortunately, you cannot currently use a CD-writer as a CD-reader.
Until someone merges (?) the worm and CD drivers, you cannot read CDROMs
from a CD-writer.
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
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