From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 3:11:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bean.epix.net (bean.epix.net [199.224.64.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1259437B41B for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 03:11:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (clsm-16ppp206.epix.net [209.74.16.206]) by bean.epix.net (8.12.1/2001112001/PL) with SMTP id g03BBQ5n013838 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:11:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201031111.g03BBQ5n013838@bean.epix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Kaufman Reply-To: daverk@epix.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: extra devices Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:11:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG when i look in /dev i'm seeing lots of devices. like so.... ptyp0 - ptypv rad0 - rad0s4 rad1 - rad1s4 ttyp0 - ttyvb wfd0 - wfd0s4 fd1 - fd1h ( and a bunch like fd1.1200, fd1.1232, fd1.1440......) and more i didn't put. is this right? i'm running a custom kernel that basically just consists of GENERIC with the stuff i'm not using commented out. it don't recall seeing this many entries when i first looked in there a week or so ago. is it creating instances when i boot? i tried looking in the handbook and 'Unleashed' but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant. thanks for any help Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message