Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:22:32 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha devfs feedback Message-ID: <4755.967450952@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 00:55:18 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008280052450.34859-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008280052450.34859-100000@beppo.feral.com>, Matthew
Jacob writes:
>>
>> What names do you usually access your disks by ? Just da0a etc ?
>
>da0{a,b,c,d} and so on..
>>
>> You should be able to find those as well with the clone stuff...
>
>Nope. Weren't there.
>
>I booted up once. I had 3 disks- none with a FreeBSD label. The
>contents of /dev for da disks was /dev/da{0,1,2}[c].
>
>So, I did the '-Brw da0 auto' and disklabel -e trick to add
>a da0a to da0. disklabel happily saw da0a after this. Nothing
>in /dev. Okay- so this kind of rescan doesn't work yet.
>
>So, I reboot. The contents of dev still are /dev/da{0,1,2}[c]. I mostly
>was raising this to see if someone else has tried alpha in this regard.
>If not- I can help debug this and fix it, but next week.
Hmm, can you send me a ls -l /dev from a !devfs alpha so I can
see what it looks like ?
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