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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Optical drive and uk0 device
Date: 29 Apr 1996 22:19:32 GMT
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dan@dan.emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) writes:

>An alternative is to update to a newer version of BSD that recognizes
>optical media.  I'm running the 960303-SNAP, and my drive comes up as od1
>(optical drive).

The `od' driver has been in the /xperimnt section of FreeBSD 2.1R as
well.

-- 
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. ;-)