On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Matthew Becker wrote:
> 
> >                 Is it possible to read form a cd drive?  I have a cd drive
> > on SCSI ID 3.  When I try a mount -r sd3a /CD       (Yes I did create the
> > directory) is says "Device not configured"  Does anybody have any ideas
> > what is going on?  I have some great stuff on the CD and want to get at it.
> 
> Ah.  Changing gears to NetBSD mode (almost sent a MkLinux "stock" reply).
> sd3 isn't necessarily SCSI ID 3, and in your case, I'd say it's not.  sd3
> is the fourth device on the bus, in order of SCSI ID's, so unless you have
> something at ID 1 and 2 _both_, the number will be lower.  If you have,
> for instance, a drive at ID 0 (internal) a CD-ROM drive at ID 3, and an
> external drive at ID 5 or six, the internal would be sd0x, the CD ROM
> drive sd1x, the external SD2x, with the x being the appropriate letter for
> the partition.

cdrom drives are seperate, the drive should in fact be on cd0 (so cd0a,
cd0c, etc)..

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