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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Optical drive: od driver doesn't work
Date: 3 May 1996 19:01:11 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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dcmyers@access.digex.net writes:

>Thanks to several who pointed out where I could find the od driver
>for optical disks.  But even after patching my 2.1 kernel source with the
>od-driver.diff file, my drive still isn't recognized.  It comes up as uk0
>(unknown SCSI device).  Is there anything else I have to do?
>
>Specifics:
>
>Quantum 1080 @ SCSI ID 0
>Fujitsu 230MB MO drive @ SCSI ID 3

For a Fujitsu, this is surprising.  Are you sure your drive is
properly setup to come up as `type optical'?  Are you sure you have
actually included od0 into your config file (and rebuilt the kernel)?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)