From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 08:16:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA23227 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from wavefront.wavefront.com (daemon@ns.wavefront.com [204.73.244.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA23221 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ocean@wavefront.com) Received: by wavefront.wavefront.com (8.6.10/SMI-4.1.R931202) id KAA13889; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:15:09 -0600 Received: from UNKNOWN(204.73.244.214), claiming to be "wavefront.com" via SMTP by ns.wavefront.com, id smtpdAAAa13844; Tue Nov 25 16:14:59 1997 Message-ID: <347AF9CB.2FEA2F66@wavefront.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:16:11 -0600 From: Michael Porter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew CC: Wei Weng , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: mount cdrom... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My IDE CDROM is on the first port, slave, and it's /dev/wcd0c One could assume that Wei Weng's CDROM would be on /dev/wcd1c That's useful info about the cdrom only working on the first, slave, or second, master. I had *many* problems during installation of another HD, and eventually I got it working (first-2gig, CDROM, second-540meg) I don't remember reading this before, is this documented more? Michael Porter ocean@wavefront.com Andrew wrote: > I think you'll find that an IDE cd-rom will only work if is either the > slave on the first IDE port or the master on the second. > > Dunno what the name of the device is though as I've only used SCSI > cd-roms. It's not wcd0c or something like that is it? > > Andrew Perry > perrya@shoal.net.au > > > > > Hi > > What is the device name for a cdrom hooked up to second IDE port? > > (Considered as second slave drive) And where can i find the documentation > > about the name of specific device? Freebsd seems confuse me by the device > > name a lot. :) > > > > Wei Weng <---> wweng@stevens-tech.edu > > Van Fantel <---> Kanzaki Hitomi > > Tamahome <---> Miaka > > Ikari shinji <---> Ayanami Rei > > *Tenku no Escaflowne, Fushigi Yuugi, Shin Seiki Evangelion* > > > >