cdcontrol no longer needs 'c' partition?

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Mon Sep 1 06:13:59 PDT 2003


On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, 19:49+0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, 10:39-0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:00:32AM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> > > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, 17:21-0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > With GEOM in place, is the 'c' partition for a CD device no
> > > > longer necessary for cdcontrol?  At least on my system,
> > > > the CD shows up as /dev/acd0, not as /dev/acd0c.
> > >
> > > What's about CDROM environment var defined in login.conf?
> >
> > I don't understand your question.
> > If the CDROM environment variable is set to a device name, cdcontrol will
> > try to open that device.  This is documented in the cdcontrol man page.
> > If the CDROM environment variable is not set, a default device
> > name of of /dev/cd0c is used, unless you override this with the -f flag.
>
> Ah, nevermind, I messed with my local login.conf modifications.
>
> Your patch looks OK, I will commit it on the next week if nobody
> objects.

done.

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Maxim Konovalov, maxim at macomnet.ru, maxim at FreeBSD.org


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