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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD-ROM/Device not configured Date: 13 Jul 1996 10:23:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4s7tfu$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31E03865.15FB7483@nwlink.com> <4ruhgd$5ho@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4s1mk3$2cp@executor.comnet.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tom@TOMQNX.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) wrote: > Do sh MAKEDEV wd0 in /dev > > This will create wcd0a and wcd0c. Usually use wcd0c. > : > Whenever I try to access the CD drive, I get "Device not configured"; > : > what am I doing wrong? Sheesh. Sorry, but you should really start to *think* before posting. If he gets "Device not configured" (ENXIO), he apparently does already *have* the device nodes, but the driver failed to detect an IDE CDROM drive. The ATAPI CDROM driver has been much improved since 2.1R, hence my advise to upgrade. -- 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. ;-)