Excellent....music cd's work fine. My confusion on the subject sorry. Thanks for the help everyone....
Weston On Wednesday 18 September 2002 04:47 am, Greg Lane wrote: > > And even weirder....when I do put in a data cd....it is mounted as > > > > /dev/acd0c which according to dmesg doesn't even exists....yet it is in > > the /dev directory structure. > > This is the way it is supposed to work. > The device in dmesg will be acd0, while it will be > referred to when mounting (as in your fstab) as /dev/acd0c. > > In a similar fashion, you will notice that your disk drives are > detected (if IDE) as ad0, ad1 etc in dmesg, although in > /etc/fstab they are listed by partition as /dev/ad0s1a etc when > they are being mounted. > > The additional letter refers to the partition. For the cdrom, > the letter c refers to "the whole disk". > > Your initial confusion seems to be due to the fact that you were trying > to mount a music cd. This is not what you do, you "play" music cd's. > You can use a variety of things to do this, from the basic, > cdcontrol (see the man page), to the graphical interface > variety, e.g. xcdplayer in the ports. > > If you want to extract the music off the CD as a .wav file, you > don't mount the cd, you use a ripping tool, like cdda2wav (from > the cdrtools port). > > Hope that makes more sense. > > Cheers, > Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
