Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 01:56:26 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@conundrum.com> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building cd devices Message-ID: <20001105015626.Y75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050338030.29137-100000@aeon.conundrum.com>; from mattp@conundrum.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:43:29AM -0500 References: <20001105013620.A16360@panzer.kdm.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050338030.29137-100000@aeon.conundrum.com>
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:43:29AM -0500, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 18:15:55 -0500, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote: > > > > > > I seem to be having some trouble creating the necessary devices to access my > > > CD-R, which is sitting on cd1 on my FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE machine. When I run > > > `./MAKEDEV cd1` in /dev, all that appears to be created is /dev/cd1c, which > > > doesn't seem to be enough. > > > > > > Anyone have any suggestions for creating the rest of the devices? > > > > Only the 'a' and 'c' partitions are made for CD devices. Is the 'a' > > partition not getting created? > > No, it's not. > > In fact, it looks like cd1c wasn't even being created. Just to see if it > would make a difference, I tried removing cd1c before doing a `./MAKEDEV cd1` > and nothing was created at all. > > flux# rm cd1c > flux# ./MAKEDEV cd1 > flux# ls -l cd1* > ls: No match. What version is your MAKEDEV? Actually, doing 'cd0' _or_ 'cd1' should create both the cd0 and cd1 devices. Try a, # sh -x MAKEDEV cd1 To see what is going on. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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