FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 available

[Radek Kozlowski]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:00:18PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I'm afraid that you're still missing the point. I'm not talking about
> media. The DRIVE is not present at boot time. No /dev/acd0 to point the
> symlink to. I insert the drive and use atacontrol(8) to connect and
> /dev/acd0 appear, but no /dev/cdrom. In some platforms ATA disk drives
> are just as removable as USB devices.
> 
> That's why I thought that devd might be the right approach.

Oops, sorry, I clearly missed the point.

After inserting the drive you could do /etc/rc.d/devfs start and the
symlinks should appear (assuming you have those link lines in
devfs.conf).

-Radek