Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:14:58 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 dev nodes Message-ID: <20050226051458.GA8778@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <421FC9BD.5080704@simplenet.com> References: <421FC9BD.5080704@simplenet.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 25), Tim Traver said: > I have just started using the 5.X branch of FreeBSD, and needed to > mount a hot swap drive in a second drive bay. In the past, I've > simply run MAKEDEV, and it made the device files for me, and then I > was able to mount the drive and I was on my way... > > It appears that this has been replaced by devfs, and I must say that > this is an extremely difficult process to understand (must mean its > very powerful ;). > > All I want to do is create the da1 devices for my second scsi disk, > and I honestly have no idea how to do that with devfs... You don't have to do anything; just pop your disk in, run "camcontrol rescan all", and use the /dev/da1 that magically appears. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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