From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 02:55:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA20167 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 02:55:12 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA20161 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 02:55:08 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA00695; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:48:53 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511061048.KAA00695@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Multiple Sony CDROMS HELP!! To: root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:48:52 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT" at Nov 6, 95 00:16:51 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1591 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT stands accused of saying: > > I have four Sony cdroms on a single SONY CDROM card (proprietary) > I can't figure out what to change in the kernel config file to tell it > that I indeed have four drives. It will automatically create scd0a > but I cannot figure out what must be done to create the other 3 device nodes. You need to do two things : # cd /dev # ./MAKDEV scd1 scd2 scd3 The second is that you need to fix the scd driver to deal with more than one drive. It mostly knows how to, but not properly : /* State machine copied from mcd.c */ /* This (and the code in mcd.c) will not work with more than one drive */ /* because there is only one mbxsave below. Should fix that some day. */ /* (mbxsave & state should probably be included in the scd_data struct and */ /* the unit number used as first argument to scd_doread().) /Micke */ Send some mail to micke@dynas.se if you want to talk about this with him. > I have asked this mailgroup several times in the last month and have only > gotten one response. It wasn't the answer unfortunately. I must admit I'd have thought you'd have at least _looked_ at the source 8( > - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[