vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 - cannot open md0

[Josef Karthauser]

I'm happy to see that vmware3 now compiles on FreeBSD 6 and an looking
forward to using it again.  However, when I start it I get:

    Unable to open either the disk '/dev/md0'....

Strange.  I used to be able to used a memory disk for my files under
FreeBSD 5.  Doesn't anyone know what's going on?

For reference:

    genius% ls -ld /dev/md0
    crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0, 130 Nov 21 12:12 /dev/md0
    genius% id
    uid=100(joe) gid=100(joe) groups=100(joe), 0(wheel), 5(operator), 68(dialer)

and it's definitely a good disk:

    genius# mount_ntfs /dev/md0s1 /mnt
    genius# ls /mnt
    $AttrDef                  $Volume                   Program Files
    $BadClus                  AUTOEXEC.BAT              RECYCLER
    $Bitmap                   Binaries                  System Volume Information
    $Boot                     CONFIG.SYS                WINDOWS
    $Extend                   Documents and Settings    Websites
    $LogFile                  IO.SYS                    boot.ini
    $MFTMirr                  Inetpub                   clj4500
    $Secure                   MSDOS.SYS                 ntldr
    $UpCase                   NTDETECT.COM              pagefile.sys

And also:

    genius# ls -l /compat/linux/dev/md*
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  8 Dec  7  2004 /compat/linux/dev/md0 -> /dev/md0

What gives?  Me confused.  It's not the block vs character device issue
again is it?   I thought that we'd fixed that ages ago... :(

Joe
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