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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!cs.city.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: adm2@sarc.city.ac.uk (Alan Messer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE cdrom question Date: 15 Oct 1996 15:54:38 GMT Organization: Systems Architecture Research Centre, City University, London, UK. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <540c3u$iee@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk> References: <53se05$pt2@flood.xnet.com> <53tlh5$9dk@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tempest.sarc.city.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] On 14 Oct 1996 15:16:52 GMT, Kelvin Li wrote: >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? Make sure you have ATAPI support compiled into your kernel. Look in: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and LINT for more info. Alan. -- Alan Messer | Email: adm2@sarc.city.ac.uk. Systems Arch., I-Op Research Centre, | Tel: +44 171 477 8551 City University, London, EC1V 0HB | Fax: +44 171 477 8587 URL: http://www.cs.city.ac.uk/homes/adm2/