From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 15:36: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAB837C12C for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:36:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.206.213] (helo=parish.my.domain) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12VNKo-0004AX-00; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:36:14 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA23921; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:21:23 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:21:22 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: J McKitrick Cc: Joe Karthauser , Joe Karthauser , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 questions Message-ID: <20000315232122.L244@parish> References: <20000315194743.F52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315195316.A5217@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315200915.G52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315201904.A5253@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315202416.B38482@genius.systems.pavilion.net> <20000315202923.D5433@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315203813.A36837@genius.systems.pavilion.net> <20000315220442.C6240@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315221509.K244@parish> <20000315230607.A7156@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000315230607.A7156@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:06:07PM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:06:07PM +0000, J McKitrick wrote: > Couple of questions: > > i'm a little unclear on the MAKEDEV stuff with N disks and M slices. > Could someone clarify? > Yes, it means that you have to re-make the device nodes for your disks. I *think* that this is primarily for IDE disks (the wd* devices need replacing with ad*). So you need to do something like: parish# cd /dev parish# ls ad* ls: No match. parish# ./MAKEDEV ad0 parish# !ls ls ad* ad0 ad0b ad0d ad0f ad0h ad0s2 ad0s4 ad0a ad0c ad0e ad0g ad0s1 ad0s3 parish# ./MAKEDEV ad0s4a parish# !ls ls ad* ad0 ad0c ad0f ad0s1 ad0s4 ad0s4c ad0s4f ad0a ad0d ad0g ad0s2 ad0s4a ad0s4d ad0s4g ad0b ad0e ad0h ad0s3 ad0s4b ad0s4e ad0s4h parish# ./MAKEDEV ad0s1a parish# !ls ls ad* ad0 ad0c ad0f ad0s1 ad0s1c ad0s1f ad0s2 ad0s4a ad0s4d ad0s4g ad0a ad0d ad0g ad0s1a ad0s1d ad0s1g ad0s3 ad0s4b ad0s4e ad0s4h ad0b ad0e ad0h ad0s1b ad0s1e ad0s1h ad0s4 ad0s4c ad0s4f parish# etc. (I have SCSI disks, that's why *I* had no ad* devices :)) > jm > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Jonathon McKitrick / jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org > "Tears from the depth of some divine despair > rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes > in looking on the happy autumn fields > and thinking of the days that are no more" > --------------------------------------------- -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message