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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 It appears that this has been replaced by devfs, and I must say that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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