Subject: Re: how do I name cd drives?
To: Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/22/2002 14:51:39
On 22 Sep 2002, Russell McManus wrote:

> I think that the right device is /dev/rcd1d, thanks for the help.
> Now xcdplayer barfs with:
>
> $ xcdplayer -device /dev/rcd1d
> /dev/rcd1d: Device not configured
>
> I can read a cd9660 cd using:
>
>   mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd1d /mnt
>
> So I'm getting somewhere.  Slowly.  I've also done "chmod a+rw
> /dev/rcd1d" as root, which I think is also required.
>
> Thanks for the help.  I'm adding xmcd from pkgsrc now to see whether
> it's -dev option works better than xcdplayer.

"xmcd" has an interactive setup that asks you to name the device of
the CDROM drive. Use "/dev/rcd1d", type "other", "use NetBSD ioctl's",
and it should work fine.

Frederick