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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE cdrom question Date: 17 Oct 1996 05:59:09 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <544hvd$aao@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <53se05$pt2@flood.xnet.com> <53tlh5$9dk@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva4.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <53tlh5$9dk@umcc.umcc.umich.edu>, kli@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Kelvin Li) writes: >I've got a small problem with my IDE CD-ROM. FreeBSD probes and finds my >CD-ROM controller, but it doesn't generate a device like it does with my >hard disk. I've configured it as slave. I've tried MAKEDEV and it makes >a device in the /dev directory, but then when i try to mount it, it says >that it's not configured. What's going on? The so-called "device" that MAKEDEV creates in your filesystem is a piece of fiction designed to make it easier for us poor humans to interface with the place where the device actually lives - the Unix kernel. You can run MAKEDEV all day and create every device known but unless their compiled into the kernel nothing is going to happen. Depending on what your running for a kernel an IDE cdrom may work or it may not. You didn't say what version of FreeBSD your running, the Generic kernel for 2.1.5 (the one that the installation procedure puts in) does have ATAPI support compiled in, as well as the device driver for an IDE cdrom, earlier FreeBSD kernels didn't.