docs/79658: Freebsd Handbook incorrect about ATAPI CD driver

[Tom Rhodes]

The following reply was made to PR docs/79658; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org>
To: Alan Larson <larson at w6yx.stanford.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/79658: Freebsd Handbook incorrect about ATAPI CD driver
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:43:45 -0400

 On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:29:36 GMT
 Alan Larson <larson at w6yx.stanford.edu> wrote:
 
 > Section 16.6.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook says that the ATAPI CD driver can
 > read audio tracks as /dev/acdDtNN (for drive D, track NN), and that the
 > NN is zero prefixed if necessary to fill to 2 digits.
 > This is incorrect.  MAKEDEV generates acd0t1, acd0t2, ... without the
 > leading zeros.
 
 It would be nice if this section also discussed using the
 cdcontrol(1) utility.
 
 It would be nice if the cdcontrol(1) utility checked if the
 invoker has access to the cdrom device on start up.  Currently
 it just dies on the poor user after they type some options.
 
 -- 
 Tom Rhodes