From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 9: 3:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDAB537B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B8243E42 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8] helo=localhost) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 17uEd9-0008Nc-00 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:03:15 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:09:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ad8] external laptop drive? In-Reply-To: <20020925134846.GA3524@irrelevant.org> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 At Wed, 25 Sep 2002 it looks like Simon Dick composed: > As root: > cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV ad8 > > Thanks for the quick reply, I've created the device(s) and they of course created other variables of /dev/ad8* ad8 ad8b ad8d ad8f ad8h ad8s1a ad8s1c ad8s1e ad8s1g ad8s2 ad8s4 ad8a ad8c ad8e ad8g ad8s1 ad8s1b ad8s1d ad8s1f ad8s1h ad8s3 I had to manually use the commad: mount_msdos /dev/ad8s1 /mnt/travelstar instead of just mount /dev/ad8s1 /mnt/travelstar for in reading the manpage for "mount" it stated that "mount" would in fact try all the other versions of mount but apparently missed the msdos one. Thanks again. :) -- |<--------------------------------72---------------------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com/raw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message