no cd0/pass0 devices under 7.0 (though acd0 is there)

Lowell Gilbert lgusenet at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Feb 29 13:36:46 UTC 2008


amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru (Dmitry Marakasov) writes:

> I didn't use my dvdrw drive for some time, and recently I've
> discovered that there's no cd0 and pass0 devices in /dev, though
> acd0 is there and works well. Before all three devices were present.
> Not sure, but it may be that I didn't use cd/pass after moving to
> 7.0 from 6.1, so maybe they've disappeared after the upgrade.
>
> My system is FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386, drive is
> acd0: DVDR <NEC DVD RW ND-3520AW/3.07> at ata0-slave UDMA33
>
> all devices under SCSI peripherals secrion are enabled in the kernel
> config:
> device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
> device          ch              # SCSI media changers
> device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
> device          sa              # Sequential Access (tape etc)
> device          cd              # CD
> device          pass            # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
> device          ses             # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)
>
> (AFAIR, only scbus, cd and pass were needed).
>
> What can I do to bring cd0/pass0 back?

Check your config file for
device atapicam


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