From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 8 05:13:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA02218 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 05:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA02213 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 05:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA01830; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 05:09:03 -0800 (PST) To: Luigi Rizzo cc: cau@cc.gatech.edu (Carlos Ugarte), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Philips CDD2000 CD-R works as HP-4020i In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:37:52 +0100." <199611081137.MAA13440@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 05:09:03 -0800 Message-ID: <1828.847458543@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) can I use it as a CD reader, by putting in a standard CDROM ? > mount refuses to work on character devices as /dev/rworm0, > and worm.c has no reference to a block device. I tried > > vnconfig /dev/vn0c /dev/rworm0 > > but with no luck This is a known problem. The device functions either as a CDROM drive (if you don't assign it to worm0) or as a worm, but not both. According to Joerg, this is not trivial to fix and so he hasn't done it (or maybe it's relatively trivial but he just doesn't have any time, rendering it non-trivial in a different sense :-). Jordan