> I tried to play an audio cd on a SS5 with xcdplayer. Installing and
   > running the binary packages leads to an error
   > 	open: : No such file or directory
   > When I look at the code in pkgsrc, I see that it attempts to open
   > /dev/rcd0d and /dev/rmcd0d. This seems to conflict with cd(4), which says
   > the whole disk is at /dev/rcd0c. 
                          ^^^^^^^^^^
     On sparc this is correct.
   

under NetBSD, programs should use the getrawpartition(3) (and sister
getmaxpartitions(3)) to work out what device to use for raw access.
that way, it works properly on all ports without hackery.


.mrg.