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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!usenet From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: IDE CDRom help Date: 5 Jan 1996 02:57:59 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4ci43n$8c5@news2.realtime.net> Reply-To: dhbrown@bga.com NNTP-Posting-Host: jake-7f.ip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-RTcode: 9541e18830b781da83ec938a X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 I'm one of those low-budget home/garage operations mentioned elsewhere that is using that retarded technology called IDE. (When I started using Linux, nobody told me I shouldn't be there with such cheap, sinful hardware!) Anyhow, I compiled the kernel with ATAPI CDRom support. Now, when I boot the kernel, you'd never know it. There's no probe of the wcd0 device. I tried to do the MAKEDEV wcd0. There's now an entry in the /dev directory for a wcd0c device, but if I try to do a mount, it says there's no such device, or device not configured. When booting, I tried to enable the wcd0 device for probing, but again, the kernel seems oblivious. It all sounds so easy in the handbook document. -- Dave Brown Austin, TX