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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: 4 May 1996 11:10:17 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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I wrote:

> >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)?

Just as a FYI:

A full

  disk            od0     at scbus0 target 3

is required, not just

  disk            od0

only (as the original poster wrote me in private mail).  config(8)
didn't (doesn't ?) know about od drives.

-- 
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. ;-)