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


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